This is an analysis of the poem Miss Edith's Modest Request that begins with:
My Papa knows you, and he says you're a man who makes reading for
books;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXX ffXghg egeigig iiiieigX gXghjjj jeiejaka Xffdee giXkeie Xggbib hflfdXa ciigXli
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,7,8,7,8,6,7,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111110111101 1 11101101110101110 1 1111111111111111 01 111011111111110 10 11010110111101111 01101101111011101 111010011010110 01 10101110101110 1001 1101100111101011 111111110101 1011 1010011011110111 11 11101011100100 001 0111100111100101 1 1101100110101101 1 110111111101011 111 111101111101111 1 11111001011001101 111010110110111 11 11111111111110 1011 111011110110010 01 11111101011101101 1 111011110111101 101 1110111100010111 01 1011010010011010 11 1110100101111010 01 1111110110111001 111011011011101101 1 111111101111011001 11011010011101011 1111111011100111 1 1111101110110110 1 01011111111111 1101 011111111010110 11 11011001011011011 11011011101101001 11111101111011 001 11100110111101110 1 111010010011111 01 1111110010101011 1110 11101010101011101 1111100011110111 1 11110101111001011 11111100111111 111 111111011011110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, talk, her, would, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Miss Edith's Modest Request;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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