This is an analysis of the poem The Wee Shop that begins with:
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking
The pinched economies of thirty years;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ababbcbc efefgdXd ggggaXaX ehehicic igigbjbj akXkilil
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011111010 0101000100 11010111110 0101011111 10110111000 0111010001 111101010001 1101010101 010010110110 1101110011 01000111010 1101010111 1101100110 1111010111 110111001110 1101010101 11011101010 1100111101 11010101110 111001001 01111100110 0101010101 111111011100 1100010111 11110100010 1101100111 11110101110 1111010111 11110111010 1110011101 101011111010 110110010100 11010101010 0101010111 101011101010 0111010101 11110111110 1111110001 01110001110 0111010101 11110101110 0100010111 01010001010 0101001101 01011111010 0111011111 11110101010 11011111001 11111100110 1101111101 11010101110 1101111111 11110101010 1001010111 01111100010 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, they, i, of, their, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Wee Shop;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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