This is an analysis of the poem Blackberry Pickers that begins with:
Low in the road under the withering hedge
They stand, the woman drearyand thin shouldered....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdXcaXcXbbdX XXXcXXcacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011001001 1101010110 01110110110 1100111101 0101110111 1010111001 0111110101 100111001010 010111100101 0110010011 010100111010 10011101010 1111100101 11110110101 001011010111 101110101110 1111110111 1101011111 0011011101 11010100101 1101110101 0101110101 1111111101 1100101101001 11010001110 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Blackberry Pickers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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