This is an analysis of the poem Ida Frickey that begins with:

Nothing in life is alien to you:
I was a penniless girl from Summum...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcadbecedbXddXdXdbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010001 1101001010 11001010110 10101011011 1111111 11111101000 11110101010 0100111110 010010111 1010110100 101010101 1111011010 110101010 1001101001 1101011010 110100001101 111111111 011101 1101001010 0111010010 1010101010 11101001111 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 908
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, i are repeated.

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

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

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