This is an analysis of the poem The Yankee Girl that begins with:
She sings by her wheel at that low cottage door,
Which the long evening shadow is stretching before;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc aabb ddee ffgg hhff eeXX bbee ggaa bbbb eecdbificX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 101101101001 001011101011 110110001011 11011001001 101101001001 11011001101 1001101011011 11001011101 01011001011 101101001011 010010101001 11011111011 111111001011 101110101101 11011111001 11111011001 001011011010 11101111001 101001111011 11111011111 111011001011 101001101011 101011011011 11011111011 01111011111 1111110010011 111011101101 11111011011 01111011001 001001101011 101101111011 11101011001 11001001111 11101011011 01001101101 101011101011 110111110110 11001111011 101101011101 11111011011 001001011011 11101011010 0 10 0 0 10100 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, to, where, thy, her, of are repeated.
The author used the same word 'o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Yankee Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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