This is an analysis of the poem Come, Pretty School-Girl! that begins with:
On this rolling planet ever have you seen
A home so like a palace waiting for its queen? --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccbbb ddbbB eebbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010111 011101010101 010111 110101 101011011011 1101111101 1100011011011 1101 1111 001011011011 11101010101 110101011101 110101 010111 0010110110001 10101010111 110111001101 110101 110111 0010110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, your, come are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word square at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Come, Pretty School-Girl!;
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- idea of the verse;
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