This is an analysis of the poem The Portsmouth Road that begins with:
As I went down the Portsmouth Road, a careless, rambling fellow,
The stormcock whistled on the bough, a stave both loud and mellow;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CX ddee CX ffdd CX bbaa CX ggee CX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101010010 010101010111110 010111011101010 110101011101010 111110111101111 1010111111111111 111101011111110 110101011111010 111101011100011 010101010111011 111110111101111 1010111111111111 110111011111110 1100111011101010 1100111111101010 1100101011101010 111110111101111 1010111111111111 111101011101110 001100111111010 0111001110101010 1100101111101010 111110111101111 1010111111111111 1111110111110010 01001110011101110 010100110101111 110101011101011 111110111101111 1010111111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as, mdash, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, but are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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