This is an analysis of the poem How Glad I Am To See You that begins with:
When you arrived at my doorstep...
I was not prepared, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc defb eXdXb bcbc ebff gbeb bXadcgcddeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11101 001110 0111 0011001110 1111 110111011 110101101 111011 11011 0111 00101010 11010 111100101 10111110 110100101 111011000101 101111000011 1111 0111001 010111 0111 0101110 11010110 110111111001 0010011 010111 11 1101 1111011 11 0111 111 101110101 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of How Glad I Am To See You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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