This is an analysis of the poem The Quilting that begins with:
DOLLY sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stich,
Gracious, how my pulses throb, how my fingers itch,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010111 101110111101 111010110101 1110011110111 1110101011001 1010100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, her are repeated.
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- summary of The Quilting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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