This is an analysis of the poem The Choice Of Sweet Shy Clare that begins with:
Fair as a wreath of fresh spring flowers, a band of maidens lay
On the velvet sward—enjoying the golden summer day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddcc eeee cXcc aabb ddff eeaa ggcc hhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010110010101 10101010010101 1100101011011101 0101111011010101 1111010101011 1101011110110111 110111011101001 1100111010100101 0111101110010101 11001001010010101 1111001011010111 1011111011100101 111100101010111 010010101010101 1011010101001011 111100111110111 1001001111010101 111110011111111 11010111110101 11010101001001 1110101111011111 1111001011111011 11111010100010111 010111101111101 0101101111101011 111111101010001 0100101111110101 1011101010010101 110101110011101 0010100011110001 11111111110111 110111011111100 010111101111101 1101101011111111 1010111110110101 010101110011101 1110101011110101 1111001110101011 1111001011100101 0101101110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with, thou, me, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Choice Of Sweet Shy Clare;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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