This is an analysis of the poem Our Hired Girl that begins with:
1 Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann;
2 An' she can cook best things to eat! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdcddeeeaX fgfgaahXhXeeeaX ebebeeXXaaeeeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111001 111111101 111110111 11101001011 111110111 101001111 111110111 101111111 111111101 101011111 11111 1101111 111111111 11111111 10111110100 1111011111 111110101 111010111 111111111 10110011111 11111001111 101111101 1111111101 111111111 1011111010 11111 1101111 111111111 11111111 10111110100 11110111 110101111 110111111 11111010001 111111111 1010010111 1101001110 1110110110 1111011001 11101101001 1101 1101101 111111111 11011111 10111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Our Hired Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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