This is an analysis of the poem Orphan School that begins with:
Full fifty merry maids I heard
One summer morn a-singing;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbX cXcdebeb fdfdgXgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1101010 11110101 00111010 01111101 1111010 11000101 11100 11111011 1101100 11011101 1101010 11011101 0101010 11011111 11010 11111101 1011000 11010001 1111110 11010011 0110 11111101 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
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- summary of Orphan School;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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