This is an analysis of the poem Strawberrying that begins with:
My hands are murder-red. Many a plump head
drops on the heap in the basket. Or, ripe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaaXaX bcdXeXX XeeadXca Xaebfee gfgccea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110110011 1101001011 010110110 010111001 1101110011 1101011011 111110111 101000010 110101010 10011101101 11100110111 0101010111 11010101 10001110 111110101 11001011110 01010011111 0010111101 1111110101 1001010111 111101101 101011101 111011 01011110100 1001001100111 011010101001 10010101110 01011111111 110101111 101101001 11001001101010 1110101011 111100101110 1010111 10010111011 111111111 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
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- summary of Strawberrying;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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