This is an analysis of the poem Supper's Ready! that begins with:
WHO is the girl I love the best ?
She with the pillared neck of snow? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bcccXX cc c c d d e eX f ef eeeggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,6,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011101 10010101 1011101 11010111 01111101 10010111 110011101 01110101 1101101 010111110 01010111 101010110 11010101 011111010 11101010 11011101 01011101 110110 01010101 110101001 01011001 110101101 11010101 1111101 11010100 11010101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Supper's Ready!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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