This is an analysis of the poem Neighbours that begins with:
My neighbour has a field of wheat
And I a rood of vine;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd acaceXeb XbdbfefX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11011101 110111 11110101 010001 10010111 111101 11000101 110111 01010101 110101 11111101 110110 11010111 111101 00011101 010101 01010101 110101 10110101 111111 10010101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Neighbours;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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