This is an analysis of the poem What She Said that begins with:
She said: Would I might sleep
With the bulbs I plant so deep,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdc ddXd eede ffefXbbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0011111 01010110 1110111 010101 0101111 1010110 101101 111111 1001111 01101110 011111 111111 1111001 10111010 011001 11101001 110110 111110011 100111 11001010 11101010 101110010 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What She Said;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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