This is an analysis of the poem Broken Vase that begins with:
The vase where this verbena is dying
was cracked by a blow from a fan....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd decc fdab XcXX dfeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010010 11101001 0111010 10111 1011 1000010111 1010001 101010 011011111 01011010 111010101 11010 11010111 10100110 1011101 10100011 101001001 01011011 11101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Broken Vase;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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