This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Pitcher that begins with:
It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well,
And what the maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot, tell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXX ddaa eXff ggeX ddXX ddXX eeXX bXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010110101 1101010110101 1111010100100010 010101110101000 11010101111001 1111010110101 1111011011111 110010101101110 1111010110111 01110011110111 1111011110101 01101101110101 1100010100100 0101011110101 1111010110111 1111010110111 110010111111 1011010011001 11011100100010 110101011101010 1101010110111 11111101111101 111111011110010 01010100110010 110101011111001 11100101110101 1111100111001 111110101110100 1101010010111 110101000100101 1110111101010010 111111000111010 010101000100010 110100010101000 11110100110101 11101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thou, and, he, him, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word 'my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Broken Pitcher;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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