This is an analysis of the poem Poor Marguerite that begins with:
Swift, o'er the wild and dreary waste
A NUT-BROWN GIRL was seen to haste;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaX eeffeeggaX hhddhhddee aaaX iiddeeiiaaaX ddaaeeddaa ddiijjddhhddbb eehhbbaa aaiieeeeaa XhcchhiiaX ddcceehhaa eeeeccaaddeeaa eebbbXiicchhaX ddaaddaakkllaa jjddiimmhhaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,4,12,10,14,8,10,10,10,14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101 01111101 11010011 11110101 11011101 11110101 11010111 11111111 101110101 10101010000 11011101 11010101 11010101 01010101 111111001 11010101 110010101 110010101 11111111 10101010000 0100111 110111001 01011101 11011101 11110111 10010101 11011101 01011101 11010001 11010101 11010101 11010101 111110111 1101010000 01010101 11011111 11010111 01110101 11010101 100101001 10110101 01010101 110010111 10000101 11111101 10101010000 010111001 111100101 10011101 01010101 11010111 11010101 11111101 11000111 110100111 01111101 11010111 110100101 01010101 11010101 10010101 110100101 11111101 01010111 11101 11101 0111 10101 110010101 1010110101 1100111001 11010101 11010101 11011101 10010101 11010101 01011101 101011101 11010111 11011101 10011101 101011101 11010101 11011101 110100101 10111111 110100101 00110101 11111111 11010101 11010111 11011111 11011101 11010101 10110101 01011101 11111101 10101110000 100110101 101111111 101001001 110111101 1010111001011 101101101101 1001111001011 101011001101 1001001101101 1001001001101 11010101 101111111 11000101 101110110 11110101 1000100111 10010110101 10101101101 101110101001 101101111111 10100110111 10101100101 101110101 1010111101 100011101 1000010101 101010101 101010101 101110101 1011100101 101010111 100010101 110110101 10010101 101111111 1010010111 11110111 10101110000 11111101 11011101 11011101 01011101 11011111 01011101 110010111 11010101 01010101 01010101 01010101 01110001 01010111 11010101 11110001 01011101 11110101 11110101 111100101 11010101 110101001 11010101 01010111 11010111 11010101 110010101 110011101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; she, of, and, its, i'll, here, his, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words while, she, and, it, his are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word marguerite at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Poor Marguerite;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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