This is an analysis of the poem Dialogues that begins with:

ANTONIA What did you see? Tell me, please!
NANNA In the cell I saw four sisters, the General, and the three milky-white and ruby-red young...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001011111 10001111100100101101110111010101010010101101001101110101001101010111010110100101010101011110100110101010001101010111001110000010100001101001110101011110010110101101010100110100111011010010100110000101010100100101011010 01001101 101001100 01001 10010100101001101101010010001111011111010110010010101011101001001101011010110001100100100010011011001111010011111111101101010011101010011001010011010100111010100101001101000101000100100111011010111010011111010101011101110001101001001010100111001 110101111010111110011010101101101100111110101111011110111010111110111010111111111110101111 010010101000101010101 1011111010011001111110010010101110111110100111010100100101101101011000011100011010011010100110101000100100011010100011011101101111010010101100010101100100100010100110101111111110111011111101101010010101110101011010010101111111111101000010101010001010110101011111111111001011011101001111010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1833
  • Average number of words per stanza: 337
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 407 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 75
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sisters, in, general, his, friars, of, her, on, with, that, then, as, its, one are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Dialogues;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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