This is an analysis of the poem The Dolls that begins with:
A DOLL in the doll-maker's house
Looks at the cradle and bawls:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbXbaXaXXcXccbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 1101011 1010101 10100101 11110111 1010001 1101110 1101101 10001 0110101 100101 0101101 101111 01101001 0101101 11101001 1100001 1011010 111111 011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dear is repeated.
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- summary of The Dolls;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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