This is an analysis of the poem Beggars that begins with:
She had a tall man's height or more;
Her face from summer's noontide heat... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc ddddee fgfghh gXgXff dbdbii babaXd cdcXXf XgXgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 01010101 11010111 01000101 01000101 1101011111101 01100101 10100111 01100101 110110101 01110101001 110101010101 01011101 11110101 11111101 11111100 11011101010 11000101010010 11010111 11011010 01010111 10010101 0101000101 10101010010001 01010101 01010101 11110111 11000101 0101010111 010001011101 11110111 11010111 11011111 01001001 1001101100111 01110011011101 11011111 11000101 111111001 110111010 1101110101 111011110101 110111001 11110101 01110111 100100011 11011101101 101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; as, her, and, of, ' are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Beggars;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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