This is an analysis of the poem The Princess Pat's that begins with:
A touch of the plain and the prairie,
A bit of the Motherland, too;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgdgd XhXhgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010011010 01001011 010011010 01001101 010010110 11001001 010011010 11001111 010110010 01101001 010011010 01001101 010010110 01001111 010010010 01101001 0100111100 01011011 010011110 01011001 010110110 01101001 011011010 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pat's at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Princess Pat's;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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