This is an analysis of the poem Stoke Charity - A Hampshire Placename that begins with:
Of all the names of ford and town,
Hamlet and bridge and furzy down....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaacd eeeeffgghhiie effjjjcd ggffXhffaaccaacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 10111101 11110001 11011101 010101001 10110101 110011101 01110101 01000101 01001100 11000111 01110101 01110111 11110101 110101110 010101010 011101110 111111010 11010101 110011111 01010101 11110101 11011101 11110101 11110111 11001000 11110101 111100101 010100101 11110101 110001100 011101110 111101010 100111010 110101010 10010111 11110001 01110111 011010111 01110111 01110101 110010111 11110101 10110101 01010101 101110101 01011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where, but, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word charity at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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