This is an analysis of the poem Nicaise that begins with:

TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;
Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccccaa aaddaaccddeeccaaffggcchhii Xiddaaee jjbXaadd bbkkbbaaccbbkkggcceecceellmmnnooiX bbllggaaddggpp ddaabb bbaaaaaappbbmmaabb llbbppbbeejjccaajmddff bbppggllmmbbaacckkddbbiXll ddbbccpp ccddggaaggbbccmm bbaaddbbmmXlljjbbipbbmmcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,26,8,8,34,14,6,18,22,26,8,16,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 0111010101 0111000101 1110001111 0011000101 1010010101 0101000101 0111010101 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1110110101 1101011101 1101011101 0111111001 1111010101 0101111101 0101011101 0101010111 1111000101 0100011101 1100010101 01110101001 1101110101 11101100101 1101110001 1101011101 1111010101 0101010111 1101010011 0101110101 1101110001 1101110101 1101111101 1111000101 1111010011 01010101010 01010001010 0111010001 0101011110 1111010101 1111011101 11011101001 10001011101 1111110101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0001110101 11011111010 0101011011 1101010101 0011010001 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 0101011101 10110100101 1101001101 0100000101 0111010101 11100100101 0101000101 0111010101 01010101010 11011111010 1001111101 0111011101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111110001 10011011101 0111110101 1111010101 1111011110 0101111001 1111010101 1101001111 0111111101 0111011110 1101110101 1101011101 1001000101 1101010011 1101010111 01011111110 0111010101 0111000101 0101010101 0101001101 0111110101 1111010101 0101001101 1101110001 1101110001 1111010101 1101110101 1101001111 0111011101 1101110101 01011001101 1111010101 1101001101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 10001100101 0101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1101000101 1001011111 1101110111 0101011101 01011100101 0101011101 11000111010 11010101010 0100010101 11001010101 0101010101 1111010111 0101100101 0101010101 0101011101 01010011101 1101000101 1101010111 0111110011 110100111 0101110001 1101010101 1101111101 1100011111 1111010101 1101010111 1101111101 1101111101 1100110101 1100010111 01001101111 0111010101 0101110001 11000110101 1101011111 1100110011 0101010101 0111011101 1111110001 1100010101 0101010101 1111010001 0101010101 1111010101 1100010101 1111010001 1101100101 1100110001 0111011101 0100011111 1101011101 1101110001 0111110101 1101010111 1111010001 0111000101 1101110001 1111010001 01110101010 0101010101 1001010101 1111110001 01010110111 0111011101 0101011111 1111011001 1111010101 1101110111 0111000111 1100011101 1101010101 0101111111 0101110001 0101010001 1101010101 1101111111 1001000101 0101010101 0111010001 0101110111 1101011101 0101110111 0101111101 0111011110 11011000101 0111011111 1111010101 0101011111 11001110101 1100110101 1101011101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101110011 1111110001 1101010101 1101011111 1111011101 0011111101 0100011111 1101011001 11110101010 10110011101 1101110101 1101000101 1111110101 1001011001 1101001101 010101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 222
  • 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; in, of, her, with, his, he, i, to, or, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

  • summary of Nicaise;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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