This is an analysis of the poem Her Song that begins with:
I sang that song on Sunday,
To witch an idle while,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb dXdXXefe fcfcgcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 011101 1111111 110001 11010110 10110 11111101 010101 1111010 1100000 0110110 010101 11010100 0111 11011101 111111 1111111 011101 1100111 110101 10010101 11101 11011001 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Her Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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