This is an analysis of the poem The Travelling Post Office that begins with:

The roving breezes come and go, the reed-beds sweep and sway,
The sleepy river murmers low,and loiters on its way, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaX bbccaX bXXXdXaX eeffaX eXggXdhhaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,8,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111011111 01010101010101 00010110010100 01111101110111 11000111110101 10111001111011101 10110101110101 11011101010111 11010101010100 1111001011100101 11011001110101 11010111011100 11110101110101 011011010110001 01001101010101 11110101110101 110101010101000 11111101010111 01011101010101 010101011101011 11010101010101 11010101010101 0111010010101000 11111101010101 1101110111010010 01010101110101 01010101010111 1111110111110 11010101110101 11011101110101 111010101011101 11010101010101 11010101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • 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; and, to, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he's, , and, by are 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 is repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Travelling Post Office;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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