This is an analysis of the poem Wallflower that begins with:
Till midnight her needle she plied
To finish her pretty pink dress;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcbcb adaddbdb ebeXcbcX efefdbdX gXgXcbcb hdhddbdb fcfchbXb eheXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101011 01001011 1011110011 1011000100 111001001 001101001 11101001 11111001 01111001 01101011 11001001 01011011 11101001 11001101 11011001 11111001 110011001 11011111 11011010 010010010 111001101 11011001 11001101 0100100100 11011001 11001111 11011011 101101001 11111001 111101101 111101001 111101110100 11101101 1101011101 111111011 11101001100 11101111 01011001 111001001 11000001 11011101 01011101 111111001 101101001 11111111 111011101 10101101 111001101 11001011 1110101101 11101011 111101001 01011011 01011011 1011110100 111001001 110100011 11001101 11111101 011110010 11011001 111011001 001101011 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, to, i, she, and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, she, and are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dance at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Wallflower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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