This is an analysis of the poem The Cupboard that begins with:
Mother: What's in that cupboard, Mary?
Mary: Which cupboard, mother dear?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcdddAececfXfAgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 10110101 10010010100 010101 101101010 0101010 11011111 1101010 101011010 10110101 101101011010 010101 1011010110 111111 110101110 110011 101011010 101111 101111111010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mother, cupboard, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mary connects the lines.
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- summary of The Cupboard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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