This is an analysis of the poem The Widow's Home that begins with:
Close on the margin of a brawling brook
That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbefcbgffXdebhciebf cjejklbimm jbbannjhbbngokbjmemeembfjabfopmmmXemjckmeecXcfjbbfchnmnndmflmXmajlbgpncbmbjcoh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,78,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1101110101 100001110101 01101100100 0101010001 1011010101 0101010111 01101100101 1100111011 1001010101 1101001101 0100010111 1001011100 11010011100 0101100101 1101001111 1111010100 10010100101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 0011010111 1101010111 111111001001 11010110001 110010010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101110101 0101110101 0110010011 0111010101 1101110101 0100010101 0101110100 0011000111 01010011101 0111010101 1001010011 1101010001 1011010101 1001010101 1100110101 0011110101 1000111001 11001011111 11010010101 1100111 101 1100110101 10010110101 10010010101 1011010101 10010100101 1001010101 0100010101 11010010111 0011110101 1001010101 1101010101 1001011111 10110011010 1011010101 1011011111 1001011001 0110010101 1111010 101 1101011011 1110011101 0101110101 0100111101 10111101001 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 0011010111 1101010111 0101001101 1101010101 0101011101 0101010101 10001010101 0111010101 01010101001 0101010101 0101000101 0101011101 1001111100 0111011111 1001010001 0110011101 0011010101 0101110011 1101111011 1101010 101 1101001101 0101110001 0101101101 010010011010 1001011011 0101001101 1111011100 0101100101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101000111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1532
- Average number of words per stanza: 268
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, far are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Widow's Home;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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