This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Purkapile that begins with:

He ran away and was gone for a year.
When he came home he told me the silly story...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXbcdXXdca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101111101 111111101010 0101111011100 1101111111 10100010111101 111101111 01001010111 1110010011111 10100010 110010 11001111100 10100100001 10100101110110 001001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he, to are repeated.

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

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

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