This is an analysis of the poem Miss Pixie that begins with:
Did you ever meet Miss Pixie of the Spruces,
Did you ever glimpse her mocking elfin face,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cded fccc X Xgbg Xcfc gegeXadbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011100010 01101010101 0110101010111010 1111110101 0111010011 0111010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101011101 01111111010 0101010101 01011101110 11 1111011101 11110111010 11011111110 10011111010 1111010101 1011010101 1011011111 1011010101 11010001110 0101110011 11111111110 1111110101 011011100010 101011100011 1110101010101010 10101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ever, you, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words did, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Miss Pixie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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