This is an analysis of the poem The Detective that begins with:
What was she doing when it blew in
Over the seven hills, the red furrow, the blue mountain?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcd edXXf cadfg fdhXe XbXXf agfbX bhXagXdbadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 10010101100110 11010100010 111010100 0110011101111 10010011011 0010010101111 101001010101100 010010101100 0100100100001 010000110110 0001001010010 11001111100101 100011101 01101101 1011000111 100101011110 100111001 1100011 1010100111100100 0011110001101 1001000 1001100100000101 000101010 01011100011 0001000010 011010010 001010100100 10100111111 01011 011 1010111 011101111110 111100110110 11111011 101101 01100100101 111110 101001010100 10100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; she, there, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words was, there, which are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Detective;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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