This is an analysis of the poem Marjorie that begins with:

The house is as it was when she was here;
There's nothing changed at all about the place;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdefefghghcicijfjf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011111 1101110101 0111011101 1001011101 0101010100 1101011101 1101011100 0101000111 1111010101 0111010101 00010010101 0101010111 1110010110 1101010101 0111110110 1101010101 1101110101 0111110101 11011100101 1111011101 1111111111 1101011111 1101100100 1101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1045
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.

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  • summary of Marjorie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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