This is an analysis of the poem The Oats that begins with:
The Oats
Here I stand with tinkling bells galore, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcX ddaa eedd ffgg gggg ccee ggaa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1110100101 101111111 101010101 111110101 1111101001 101010101 1010111001 001011101 101010101 111000111 111010111 1010001001 101011101 101110101 111111101 111011101 111010111 1010010111 101011101 101010101 101110101 101110101 111011111 101011001 111010011 101011101 101110101 001011101 11 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, friends, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, friends, ringing are repeated.
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- summary of The Oats;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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