This is an analysis of the poem The Meadow Mouse that begins with:
1
In a shoe box stuffed in an old nylon stocking...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXXbcadefgh eXXXec XiX X hdiagf dXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,6,3,1,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 001110111110 10101110011 1110110101 111111011110 10011 01010011001100 0011010110011 01111 10101 1011111101001 101010110 1110011011100 1011001 111110110 0111010101 1010111 101001011 11010111010 111101 11110010 1 101001111011010 11111111 11001110011 0110011 10010011100011 01110000101011 1100101000011 010100010100011 010101001101010 1110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, him, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Meadow Mouse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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