This is an analysis of the poem Betty that begins with:
You can see the sandhills from our new room.
Butterflies...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdeXfghiahddjXXXfXXkcgXlmhn Xjbhkhk Xkmhb dnokmkn bbbpddjphq Xbnbqrmndemd knfjmfnkkX nhefbhiihcnfmnbcccbkmkmbbl birbkibhdij kkjblklifhq ljndgXmn cmkhgfljrgpm XkhdhmlmnclXkhkXjbbj aekrmmkgpnnfgabkJbfJqcbnjbb cnkbhbndbirhbiahbjhhsed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,7,5,7,10,12,10,26,11,11,8,12,20,27,37,12,15,16,12,11,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100111 101 10010 110 11000 011101 1001101 111011 101100 11011 1110001 1000100 1111 111110 10100 1101001 111010 110110 1111000 111000 111000 0111111 1010011 1000 11001 01001101 01111 1000 1110 11101011 1101100110 101111 110010 1100100 1100110 01111 1011 10101011 111001 1110010 111101 1111110111 1111010 0011 01011 1011101 01110110 11101 1111101 11111001 1110 101 11110111 1011110 010110 01110101 10110110101 1101010 10110 11011 110100101 111010 111011011 1111 11 10011 10010 111101 1111101 010101 000101 011111100011 110110101 11111 0111101 11001 101110 0101 11011 10110111 1011 111101 11001111 111111 11100101 11110101 001011 1111 01011 01101 11111 111110001 1110010 1101 1111101 110110101 101101 1010 1100101110 01011 0111 11101001 1111111 11101 011101 11111 11110011 11010111110011 01111010 01011 1100111111 11110101011 111001 10011111 0000101011 1111 111010 11101 0101101 11111010 1110111 101001010110 01110 111110100 11111011010 111010010 111110 10101 0101 1101101 1111 1110 110 1111 11100101001 11111101 1111 11100011 1110001101001 1011000101 1110101 1110010 01111 11101 101011001 11010 110110 110110 11011101 10 11101 100 1001 11111111 11 10111 010011 1110110 00011 0110110 1011100 11010010 101 11101 1111001001 11100 1100001 100110 10011 1110111101 111110 110011 110100101 1011010 1101111 111011101 11101 11111 101101 0111010 1110110 10101 1111001 1111 10101 10100101 1000101 110 010110 1101001 110 011101001 1001011001 10101 101001 110 1001 11010011 010111 10011 110101001100 1101101 1111010 100011 010101 11110100100 0111 1111 10101010 10111 11011 1101101 111 1111010 0101010 101010 1000101 01011101 0101100111 11011 0101001 01001 1101110101 10111 101 101011 111100 10110 11110100 11111111 101011111 011001001 1010111 010010 10111001 1100101 111001 101 110110 10010 00010 111010 110011010 111101001111 101101001 10101111 110111 101010 10110001 11101 1101010 1011010 11110 110101 11100011 111111 001001 11010 10110001 11101 111010101 1111 110110 111011 011011 1111111 11101111 1111 1111 111011 011101 11101 11111101 111011 1111 1111 11101 101111101 111001011 011 101101 110111 110110101 1101011111 01 111110 111111 1111010 101101010 110111101 110011 101011001 000101 111011 11111011 01011010 111101 010011 101010 1011 0011011 100110010001 101001 01111 101001 11100100 110010101 11011 01011001 1011110 1111100111 11011001 0101111 11111 10011001 11111 11111011111 10010111 1111011 1001110 1111101 0111 1111011 11110 110111111011 0011110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 341
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, up, i, to, in, their, nothing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, perhaps, their, you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word moon at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines centipedes, feel, stars, tea, little are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases pink, fence, moon, you connect the lines.
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- summary of Betty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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