This is an analysis of the poem Our Visitor that begins with:
There's a fellow on the station
(He dropped in on a call,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcdefdefaghaghijfiXf akkakkXkfXkf XjlXjlimXimf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 110101 1100010101 10101010 1011101 1101010101 10011010 1010101 1101010101 0101110 1010101 1101011101 1101110 1101101 1111110011 11110010 111011 11101011101 1100010 0010101 1100010001 1111010 1100100 11010111101 11100010 1011111 1100010101 10101010 1110101 110100010101 11101010 1110101 1101101111 11010010 111101 1110110101 1101000 110011 1101010101 0101010 110111 1101010111 111110 1010101 110111110001 111001010 1010101 10111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, as, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word job at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Our Visitor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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