This is an analysis of the poem Peggy that begins with:
Peggy said good morning and I said good bye,
When farmers dib the corn and laddies sow the rye.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb ccaa ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101011101 110101110101 11011101111101 111000101010101 01111101110101 111011101010111 1101011011101 110001001110101 1101011110101 010100001110001 11011111100101 11011001110101 1101110110101 11011101110111 11111101110101 110111011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, and, i, her, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Peggy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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