This is an analysis of the poem Miss Delia Woodruff Godding, that begins with:
A faithful Teacher of the young from early years, and recently the
Principal of a Female Seminary and Boarding School at St. Anthony,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cccXdeefgfX fhdXXdhXbfhb Xgfeda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010001010011000 10000111010110111100 1010110001010101101010 010100101011 1101010101 1101011101 10110100101 11001001101 0111110111 1101000101 1101001101 10110010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101 010111 1101111101 0101110111 1111110 0101 1101 111001 11010100110 10111101001 1011010101 1101010 1101101101 1001011101 11010100101 1101011101 1011000100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, here, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
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- summary of Miss Delia Woodruff Godding,;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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