This is an analysis of the poem Rip Van Winkle. Canto I. that begins with:
OLD Rip Van Winkle had a grandson, Rip,
Of the paternal block a genuine chip,—Â... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccccddeebbff eebbggbb ffhhXcggddeXaaiXXcXXddhhbX jjbXhhddkkiillhhbbkkmXee aanneecc bbggddmmeejXdd ffbbccaa ffbbggjjhh ggggjjkk Xnddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,8,26,24,8,14,8,10,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 00010101001 01010100101 1101010101 1001010101 0111001101 0101110111 11100110101 1111000101 1111001011 1101010101 0101011101 1111010101 01010010111 0101111101 0101010101 0111011101 10110001111 0111010110 1101110111 1111000101 11011010101 11010100110 11010000101 01010011011 01011100111 1100111101 1111010111 01001000101 1101100101 1011011000 1001001111 11011010101 0101010101 01010000101 01001101101 1011011101 11110100100 111111111 10010010111 11000111 0101011100 1011010110 1010010011 10111100111 1101011100 1001000111 01001001101 11000001001 1001000111 1011110111 1101110100 1101111101 1101110011 100100000101 0111110111 1001000001 01010101101 1001010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010111 1011011101 1101000101 1001000101 1011010101 1011001101 11001111001 11010100101 1101000111 1101000101 11010010101 1011011111 0101010110 1111101001 1111111101 0101111101 1111010101 1111010101 11010011101 1001001001 11110100101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 11010101001 110010111111 1111010111 1111111101 1101011101 10011111001 11010100101 111110001 1111010100 11110101001 1111010101 1101010101 1101110001 1111011001 1101100101 011100100101 1101011101 1011011101 1111000101 1100010001 11010010101 1101110101 11010100101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1111000101 10110011101 0111010101 110101001 1011001101 1101010111 0101010101 0101000101 0101010111 1001010001 01110010111 0101010101 1101010101 110100101 1111111101 1111011100 1101001111 0111010101 11101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, and, fellow 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 Rip Van Winkle. Canto I.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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