This is an analysis of the poem Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall that begins with:
Oh down at the tavern
the children are singing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCCD DacCcXbCCefcCcD DghhXeceagdDXDfAbCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 010110 011110 10111 011101 1101 1100101 100101 1111010 001011 1101011 11010110 011110 10111 0101001 100101 101101 1111010 00100101 011101 1101 11100111 11110010 11101010 1111111 0110011 11100101 11011101 101100110 111101 11101101 011101 1101 111001 111010 1010110 011110 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, my, why are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 said is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word said at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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