This is an analysis of the poem Cabbage Soup that begins with:
A peasant woman, a widow, had an only son, a young man of twenty, the best
workman in the village, and he died....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cc X aabc ad eX XfcX bgX eegXXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,4,2,2,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101110101101001 100010111 01011010001010001010 101001010100100 11011 100010001010101101 100100100011011101 01101110100100010 11100011111 01011101101011101 1101110101101 1010101111101011 101110101 1111010101011010011 1101010111110100 10101010110011101 10011101011100101 0101101011110011 1000100100110111110 01111101111111 110110101001101011 110101101011010 100110101101100101 101 010101010110110110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, and, had are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Cabbage Soup;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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