This is an analysis of the poem The Sisters that begins with:
They used to say
Our mother brought us up like hot-house flowers, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdadacefefghihig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11011111110 0101 110101 01010 0111 1010110010 0111 110011 01010 1111 1101010101 1101 111111 1111 1001 1101010001 1101 010101 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 534
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Sisters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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