This is an analysis of the poem The Auction Sale that begins with:
Her little head just topped the window-sill;
She even mounted on a stool, maybe;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd edbdcccc eaeafgfg gXgXcfcX fdfdhaha fgfgijij akakjcXc lmlmcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1101010110 1101011100 1111011100 1111010111 110110101110 0101110101 1101010101 11010111101 0101010111 1001110100 1101010101 1101010111 0101010001 1101111101 01010100101 1101000101 0111110101 0101011101 1101110011 0101110101 1111010101 1111110101 0101011101 1100110101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010100 0111110011 1101010101 11101000101 11110111110 1101101111 1001001101 11001101011 1100010111 1101010101 0101011101 1111010111 1111111001 1101111111 0111010101 1101011111 1111010101 1111011101 1111011101 11001111101 0101001101 1101010101 1001010111 1101110101 0101111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110011 1101010101 1101101111 0101011101 1101111111 0111000111 0111010101 1111110101 0100110111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, of, his, you, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, the, what are repeated.
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- summary of The Auction Sale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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