This is an analysis of the poem Girl-Gladness that begins with:

It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills,
And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbbccdedeffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011101011 11111101111 01011001011 01011011111 11101 101101 111101011001 01101001001 01001111001 111111101 101001101001 11101001011 11011011001 01101001001 101011011011 11001111001 11101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 750
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Girl-Gladness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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