This is an analysis of the poem The Blue Ribbon Did It that begins with:
She loved him ; but she saw him drunk !
Ah ! fearful sight for her to see ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc bddX eX e X Ee cd fd f f ef e fE e c e X e b b ea e a XEXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11011001 11010111 11110100 11010101 01111001 01010101 11011111 11000111 11011111 111111 111 11111101 11110111 111010101 11110101 01000101 11010101 01011101 11010111 01010101 1101101 111111 111 11010101 01011111 01110111 111010101 11010101 10111101 11011111 111110111 110010111 01010101 111110011 1110101 111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; she, and, that are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Blue Ribbon Did It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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