This is an analysis of the poem Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iii. that begins with:

The great farm house of Malcolm Graem stood
Square shoulder'd and peak roof'd upon a hill,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaaddefghhXiXafXigjaklddifidgacgfifagdadXfiXXblmncldaifmgbdknlngohnimXekclXnXibkfkakXXigabimmfihfcdbblapdibigaaqgniipafbrjpdccargjbkmnikidafsaffgXXaXignqegginaiagiXissmggag fiffddgg mqmqeeqqaahdhmX jcctlgbXgiibgahalalaXaibifaoeXXjiigdaibtnXafndama
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 174,8,15,78,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011101011 1101110101 0101010101 1111011111 1111011101 1011010101 1101111111 1101100111 1101010101 1111010111 1011010111 0111010100 01001011111 0101111101 111101011 110011101 1101110101 1111010101 10110100101 10001110111 1011111011 1101110101 1011110001 1111111101 1101110011 1101010111 1011010001 1011010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1100110111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 1101110111 1101011101 10010101010 1101110101 11011101101 1111111011 1101011111 0010010001 0101011101 1101010001 1011010111 1101010101 1101011111 0101110101 011111101 0101000101 1101010111 110111101 1001001101 10110100101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 10100111011 10001010001 1101011111 1001110101 1111111111 1011011100 1101011101 1111110111 1001010101 1110000111 0101110101 11110101101 1101110101 11111111010 1101010111 10111101110 11110100101 1000101101 0101010011 1001010100 1101010111 1111010101 1101111101 1111111111 1011110111 0101010101 0101110101 0011110011 1101010111 10110110101 1011010101 1011011111 1101010111 111111001 1101010101 1001110101 10011011101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101001101 10100011101 1111111011 1111011101 1110010100 1111011101 1101111101 1101111111 1101011111 11101111110 1101001111 10110101101 1101010101 1101010110 1101010111 1110010111 1111010101 1001010111 1101010001 1101000101 11110010101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011101 11011000101 1111011001 1111001110 1100110111 1011010101 10011111111 1011010011 1110010100 1111011101 1111010101 1101011101 1101111101 1101110001 1010010011 11011100111 1111110101 1111010101 1101010111 1101100101 1101011101 1101111111 1101111101 1101001111 0101110001 0101110101 0011010101 11010101010 1011011101 1101000101 11001010101 1101010111 10110100101 01010110111 1101110101 1001110111 1101010001 1101000101 1110010111 1111010101 01010010111 11010101001 1011010101 10011101011 1111010001 1101011111 1101011101 110001001 11000111 01010101 1101101 1101111101 1001110111 0001011111 1101110111 11001001 110101010 11110101 110101010 11010101 11000101 11010 011100101010 1001 0101 01111011 11011101 11000101 1010101 0101010 1101011101 1011110101 1011010111 0101010101 1101110001 1111010101 110100111 0101010100 0011010111 0101011101 0101010011 1111011101 0110010101 0101011101 1001011101 1011010101 0111010101 0101011101 1101110101 1001011101 0111010101 0011111101 0111010101 1101010101 1011110101 1011011101 0101010111 1101100111 1101110101 11000111110 110111011 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 1001110011 1111010101 1100011111 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1100111011 1111110101 1111010111 1111011101 1101010101 1111111001 1011011101 1101111111 1101111101 1101111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101000101 1001111101 11111111010 1111010111 11010100101 0111000101 1101110101 0011110101 01110110101 11010110101 1101111101 010100011001 0101011101 0110010101 1101110111 001010110101 1001110111 1111011101 1111111101 0111010111 11110100110 1111111101 1111111011 1101001101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1498
  • Average number of words per stanza: 281
  • Amount of lines: 279
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; his, and, how, to, it, him, love, of, log, in, i, katie's, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'a, 'and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, ', logs are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part Iii.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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