This is an analysis of the poem My Playmate that begins with:
The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
Their song was soft and low;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe ghih jjfX fXXe cgig ebjb gjjj XadX cfaf hgcg XjfX cgcg hjdj jbib cf Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 111111 01000111 010101 01010111 010111 01010101 010101 110111110 111101 110001001 010101 11010111 110101 11110101 110101 11100101 0100110 11001111 111111 110100101 010100 11011011001 110101 11110101 010101 01010001 010111 110001001 110101 11011101 110111 01111101 011101 110111011 010100 01010001 011001 01111101 011001 11001100 110111 010010101 110001 11011101 110101 11000101 110101 111101011 110111 11010111 1101010 11100101 110101 010100101 0111001 01110111 0101001 110010101 010101 11010101 110101 01000101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; her, other, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she are repeated.
The author used the same words the, she, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Playmate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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