This is an analysis of the poem The Geranium that begins with:
When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,
She looked so limp and bedraggled,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacddcabXeaXX bXfcX Xfbde Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110101 11111010 11011010110 10101001010 1101001 10101 100101110 1001100 10111 1111101110111 0101010 10101001 11100101 11111010 01101 01110101 1010101110 110110 110100101010 1011111011 11110 1111010001 1011100011 1110 111001001011 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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.
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- summary of The Geranium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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