This is an analysis of the poem The Traveller that begins with:
I've loops o' string in the place o' buttons, I've mostly holes for a shirt;
My boots are bust and my hat's a goner, I'm gritty with dust an' dirt;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggffhh ddffgg eeiicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110011101101101 11111110100100111 10101101010010111 10011011100101001 1011001010111101 11110011100011011 1110111101010111001 11001101101111011 110111101101111011 1011011101001101 101001110100111 10111001110100111 0101011100111001 010110101011111001 01011011101111011 11001011100101001 111111111111101101 11110011100101111 11110011100110101 011110111101111001 111101110100101 111100100111101111 11110111101111101 10100111011011111 11111111101111011 10100111111101111 110011011101100111 111010011100110101 11101001110100111 11110011101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, and, in, over, ha', me, that, have, i, got, o' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it, me are repeated.
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