This is an analysis of the poem The Patchwork Bonnet that begins with:
Across the room my silent love I throw,
Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcab deXde fdffd dgfdg hdchd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 11110011101 111111010010 01010100111 010101 0101110101 11010110101 01110111010 11011011101 100011 10111101010 0101011101 11001101010 010101001010 110101 1001110111 1101110111 011101101110 11011111101 110101 11011010110 1101010111 11011111111 11011111010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; playthings is repeated.
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- summary of The Patchwork Bonnet;
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- idea of the verse;
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