This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Purse that begins with:
I remember the excitement and the terrible alarm
That worried everybody when William broke his arm;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbddcc eeffcc ggddcc hhdXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000101010001 1101010110101 111011111010101 111010101111101 101110101111101 101110101110101 101010101011101 11000101011101 110001001110101 111011101010001 11010101110101 111110101110101 111111010111001 11110101110111 11010101010101 101010101010101 111111010100101 10111101110101 11110101111111 11110101010001 11010101100101 111000101010111 101011101111001 111001101110101 111110100111101 111000101111101 111010101111101 1111100111101010 111001101111101 11110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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; she, an', i, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pocketbook at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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