This is an analysis of the poem The Unheeded Pageant that begins with:
Ah, who was it coloured that little frock, my child, and covered
your sweet limbs with that little red tunic?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXaaaXaabcXXXdcdccdceFdXdeF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110111110 1110110110 11110010010011 1001100111 111010110111 10011111011 10111101011 1101101010111 0101101110101010 110011111011 110111111001101 0111 11011110110100 10101110101 110111101 0110010101000110 1 011110110 011010111101101 101011101111011 0110010101000110 1 010100101001110 10111 01101011101101 1110100010101110 001 1010100101001110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1433
- Average number of words per stanza: 257
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Unheeded Pageant;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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