This is an analysis of the poem Told At that begins with:
Tom Pascoe was a fisherman belonging to Portloe,
And when I can't just tell you, but 'tis middlin' long ago;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb ccdd eeaa ffdd bbeX ddXg XehXh ccdX ggdd ddeeaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101001 11111111110101 110001000100010 110100100110101 11111110111111 001100101110111 111111101011111 101010100111101 11110101110001 111010101110001 111101010101101 11111101010011 11010101110101 111011100111101 11110101110011 11010100111111 01110111110110 111010100011101 11111011110101 111111101111101 110111001111101 11111101111110 1010100110100 11000101011001 011011101111111 11111101110111 101110111111101 1111010111 01001 101111101011111 11110101111101 11010111111111 11010101010001 100110011110101 01011001010101 11011100110101 11010100110101 11110101110011 11111100110101 11110011110111 01110111110011 101011101011110 110 0 0101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, his, he, to, as, their, got are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Told At;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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