This is an analysis of the poem Warning that begins with:
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdccXecf fgXc bfecXgda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011110 0011110111011 11111101101101 11010111110110 111110101010 1101100111011 11110101010 111100100011 11110110001 11100101010 1101 11110011111 11110100101 1101110101 11111011011010 1111111111 1111111001 11000101010 111101011010 110110100101 1101111111101 1100111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Warning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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