This is an analysis of the poem The Fortune Seeker that begins with:
HOLLYHOCKS slant in the wind,
Gallantly blowing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeefgFg hchcdidiccfgFg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 10010 1011011 111110 11001001 1011 1111 01011101101 11110110110 011011011010 111100 1011001 0100100100100 1101001 1011101 10110 100110101 10110 1101001 1011 1111 10011001001 11111011010 01011011010 111100 1011001 0100100100100 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 443
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, marry are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hair at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Fortune Seeker;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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