This is an analysis of the poem The Daguerreotype that begins with:
This, then, is she,
My mother as she looked at seventeen, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXddedffgehgihigjjikkidiX ggffaadffhhgbgdbbgggfflXlf mdimldlnnifXfkkdaahhheeaoioippiiqXmghihiXaammqqfpffgoogXXgqgqghhhghddffggiigalacallccllliXiegeffgfngXgkkiibbgbXhXeehhbbikkihhXghhhhhhelhleleleh iiihhqbbbqqiirr
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,26,143,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1101111101 111111010100 10101010101 0101010011 0101110011 00101 111101 1101110111 1101110101 1011010101 1101100111 1101010101 11 1010111 0101 11 10010101 001101 1100111001 1111010101 1111010011 11111010101 1011110101 111101 1100110001 0101011101 11000100100 101111 1111011 010101001 0011111 1101011101 101101 1001010011 1001010111 1111001 1100010111 001011100101 111101 0111011001 01110101 11 100100100101 1101111101 010100010001 0101010101 1110011100 110111 1101010001 0111010111 1011010101 1011110011 1001110011 111111 1010100 0101 1100010101 1111011001 111101 1111001101 01010111010 11010101010 1101111111 1111110111 001100 101001 0011111111 1001001 00010011100 0101011001 1001100101 1101010101 111111 11010111001 1111011101 1011010100 110111 1101110101 1101010101 0111 1001010101 111010010001 110111 101001 0111110101 100011 0100110101 1001011101 1111 110101 1111 100101 11011000111 10011110010100 1010 101 110111 1101111 1111 1101110011 11001110101 0101010111 01010101 111101 010101 01010010001 01110010011 010101 10101001110001 111101110101 1100101 1111 101101 1101111001 1001101100 111011 10010101 110101 1101 110111 10011000101 011100 1001011101 1111010101 010101 0101010101 1101110111 0101001111 01000100011 111101 10110000101 110101 111011100 0111011111 110111 1000101 1101010 11101010 01011001101 0100010011 110001 101111 110001100 1010101010011 1110010101 10010101 0101 1110010101 0101001 0101010101 111001 01100010 0010101 110100 010101 1111100101 110101 0101 0101010001 1101 1101000101 011101 101101 0111 11110101 10010100100 1111000101 11010101 010101 1100010101 110101 1101010101 1101011 0101010101 10010101 0111010001 1001111111 110111 00110111000 01010001 10110110001 1001010101 1011010101 111101 010001 1111111001 1111101101 1110111011 110111 1001010001 1101010100 1111111100 1011010101 1001111 1111101000 100101010101 1001 1111111111 01 111111 1101111111 1111 11010011111 100111 110101 0101011001 010101 10000100101 011101 1111 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1883
- Average number of words per stanza: 337
- Amount of lines: 212
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; she, of, and, to, than, with, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Daguerreotype;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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