This is an analysis of the poem The Salutation that begins with:
These little limbs,
These eyes and hands which here I find,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee cXcdff agagaa ahahaa ijijii ididaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 11111111 11011001101 111001 1100101111 1101011101 1101 11010100 0101000101 111111 1111111101 1011011101 1111 11000100 0101111111 010111 1101110111 0101110101 1101 11011101 1101010101 010111 110111101 1101110101 0111 11010101 1101010111 010111 0101010101 0111110111 1101 10110111 01010001001 011101 0001010111 1111110111 0101 11111101 1101001101 111101 1111101101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these, or, such, to, and, strange are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, the, strange are repeated.
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- summary of The Salutation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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