This is an analysis of the poem Service 2 that begins with:
I passed a cottage 'twixt the town and wood,
And marked its garden, blossoming bright and bold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcac dede ffef baba ddaX ghgX aaha idid jjdj babX Xkak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010111 11010100111 11010010111 111101 0101010111 1110010101 110101 100101 1111000101 1101010101 1110011101 010101 1001110111 0111011111 111001 010111 1101010101 1111011101 1001100111 110111 01010101001 0101000101 110101 110101 0111110101 1111011110 1101010101 010100 1111111101 1101001101 011111 111111 110101001110 0101010101 101101110010 011111 01000110101 1111011111 010001 111101 11111011001 0101110101 10110100111 110101 1111110100 0111110101 100111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, how, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, how are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Service 2;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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