This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No. 4 - Our Mr. Trim that begins with:
Mr Trim, commercial traveller, is in town again,
'Our Mr Trim,' you know, debonair and neat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd bbbbeaXa dXdXXXXX fefecgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101010000101 11011110111 101010101101 11111011101 0110101010101 00101010101101 11110010111 11010110001 101010011011 101010110111 101011010001 10101011101 10101001111 101101010101 11010010110101 11110101110101 101010010001 10101110101 1101110110011 101100101010101 1010100101010 10001000101001 110111011101111 010101011101 101010010101 101010111101 100011110101 10101001111 101010111111 11110110101 101111110101 11010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; man, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word mr at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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