This is an analysis of the poem A Sketch that begins with:
The little hedgerow birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXacbbXXcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101001 1101010111 1101100101 01010101001 0111010101 0111110111 0110100001 0101010111 1101010101 11011101010 1101110101 1111101101 0110110101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines whom is repeated).
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- summary of A Sketch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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