This is an analysis of the poem The New World that begins with:

A man roams the streets with a basket
of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX XbX caX Xbd eXe afb ggX efX XXX eXa bgc daX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011010010 01110100100 101011101100 1110001110 010011010010 01010010100 1101110110 100001011101 0001110001 1101001100 1000100111 00101010100 0101000011 10100101000 0011101010 1011000011 0111101001 0111001101 1110010101 1101010011 1101000101 01100011101 111011111 1010010001 0100111011 0011101101 0111000101 1111110001 0110011101 11011010101 1101010101 101111101 1100101010 1101011011 01010110111 10110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; peaches, of, and are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase peaches connects the lines.

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  • summary of The New World;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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