This is an analysis of the poem A Pin that begins with:
Oh, I know a certain lady who is reckoned with the good,
Yet she fills me with more terror than a raging lion would.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ccbb ddXa aabb aaee ffbbXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010000 111101101010101 01011111111011 111010101110111 111010101110101 110010101110001 111111110011101 011111111110101 111100101010101 01000111110101 01010101011011 11010011110101 110000101110101 101110100010101 110110100011101 1010101011111110 110110101110111 011111000101001 111110101110100 01000101010101 11101111011111 111110100111001 111100101010110 10111011001010 01010100010101 11100101111111 101110101111010 0111001101010010 101111101110101 11110101111101 111110100011101 01010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, you, her, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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- summary of A Pin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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