This is an analysis of the poem At Devlin's Siding that begins with:
What made the porter stare so hard? what made the porter stare
And eye the tall young woman and the bundle that she bare?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd cc ee bb ff gg cc ee ddXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111110101 11011101010111 11011101110101 101110111011001 11011100111101 11010101010101 11011111100101 11110100010111 10011111110111 11010101110101 11010101110101 01000111100111 11111101111101 01111100010111 111101011001001 11010111010001 11110111010101 11010001010101 11111101110101 01000101010101 11110111111101 11100101010011 11010001110101 01011101000101 11011110110101 10011101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, made, why, her, she are repeated.
The author used the same words what, why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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