This is an analysis of the poem The Geranium that begins with:
How can you stand it—looking at things?
For example, the geranium...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdd ecf dda b dgg X eh i XXd ei fb ja dec hch cga Xj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,1,3,1,2,1,3,2,2,2,3,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100011 101000100 1101010101 1000111011 1010 010101001010101 111010 100 101011 111001011010 10101 110001010 1010010 00101001 011 11001100 101000101011 111010 11101111 01001100 11110 1010100 1011111 110101 110010011 1001 1101010101 00101101 100101000101 0111001 010101 1011010 10010011 1110 10111 000101111101111 101001100 1001111 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vision is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase slower connects the lines.
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- summary of The Geranium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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