This is an analysis of the poem Miss Rosie that begins with:
when I watch you
wrapped up like garbage ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbXAbXXXXAcXbDcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11110 10010101 0110111 1 1111 01111 0010111 1010111 111100 11 1111 11110010 110001101010 10010101 111 11010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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 Miss Rosie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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