This is an analysis of the poem The Playmate that begins with:
She is not Folly -- that I know.
Her steadfast eyelids tell me so... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX ddee XXff XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 01111111 110100101 11110011 1101011 01010101 11001101 1101001010 11011101 01110101 11110101 10110111 100100101 11000100 01010101 00110101 10110110 10110101 11110101 01100110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Playmate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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