This is an analysis of the poem At Pelletier's that begins with:

We've been out to Pelletier's
Brushing off the stain of years,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbbccaaddeeffgXXaccaaddccXdccccXAXchhbbiieeggdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100 1010100 1010101 1011101 111011010 10101010 10001010 10101010 11110010 00100010 10101111 11111011 10001110 10111110 11111010 10111110 1010100 1010111 11101010 10101110 10101110 10101010 11101010 01101110 11101010 11001110 10011011 11101110 11101010 11111010 10101010 00111110 1010100 1010100 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101110 10101010 11101010 11111110 10101110 11101011 10101111 101000110 100101110 11111010 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1589
  • Average number of words per stanza: 292
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, in, them are repeated).

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