This is an analysis of the poem Part 7 Of Trout Fishing In America that begins with:

THE PUDDING MASTER OF
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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c d X e f g e h a i c j c j b c X c a g c g b a a b f X a c c f X c b f j i d X g f g h b j i X f k j e X l l c kXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100 1010 11110100100100 1101010010101110 1001010101001 1101001001101 01001101100101 110100010010010 1011101010111 0100 011100101010101000 0100100110010111 01011100101110 100111 010101000111010 1001111011101 101101001010010 101101111001100 11010111011100101 11100111101110 101 010010111010010 010011010100 111010110101101 1001001001010100 011100101010101000 01010111110101010 100100110011010 1010100101000111 01110011101101 101011001101100 10011010101110010 010 01011001010011 01010110111100 1001001001010110 1001010010111001 1010100111011 00101011101001 00011110101111 01101101101010 011110 1101001111110 10010110100110000 11111 0101001011010100 001000110011111 100101 1110010011110 101110110011101 0001100111100111 01 11110001101101 01011110010101 101011111101 11011101001111 01010000110111 11110001110100 11101101110110 101010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
  • Average number of words per stanza: 9
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; their, of, in, can, and, she, fish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 of is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word of at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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