This is an analysis of the poem The Mistletoe that begins with:
Kiss me: there now, little Neddy,
Do you see her staring steady?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccddeeeefff ccggaaXaXaee ddbbbbbbhhhhbbhhXXaabbXi ccjjffaacc aXddiiaaXfkkiiXbbcceeddaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,24,10,27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 11101010 101110100 1011010100 10111010 10101010 10111100 10101010 00101110 11101010 10101010 10101010 1010101 1100101 1110101 11111001 10011010 10011110 00101010 10001110 10001110 1010111 10111110 10101110 10101110 10101010 10111010 10101110 10101010 10101110 10110010 11111010 10101010 10101010 101110100 10111010 10100110 11110010 10101010 11101010 101111010 10100110 10111010 00101110 00101010 11101110 10111010 11110110 10101010 101000101 101010100 11101010 11111010 10111010 10101010 11101110 11101110 10101010 10111110 10111010 101101010 1111010 1010111 10101010 11101010 10101111 11101111 11101110 101001010 11111010 10111010 11111010 11110110 10111011 10111011 00111110 10101010 10110001 11111110 10101110 11111010 01111010 10111110 00111010 11101110 10111010 10101000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, her, nest, kisses, on, tell are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, there, there's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, it, you, them are repeated).
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- summary of The Mistletoe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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