This is an analysis of the poem Clothes that begins with:
Walking back to the office after lunch,
I saw Hans. “Mister Isham, Mister Isham,” ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddefghfcghigcjgkXXXbXXjadgdhjekXgkdddbjbgiXjfj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010010101 11110101010 111001011011 0101010101 1101011001 1101010001 0101011111 10010010111 0101010101 0110010101 0101010101 0101110101 10010101001 100110101 1001010001 01011100101 1111011101 1111011111 110111100111 01110101010 1011010100 1101010101 1111111101 1001111001 0101010100 0101010101 10101000101 011001010011 1001110101 010001111011 1110011101 01011101110 11111111010 0111011111 110101011010 01001111111 1001010101 01010101001 1111101010 1101011101 111110111 10010101110 0011011101 01010101110 0111110011 10010101010 0101010111 1100010101 10010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2126
- Average number of words per stanza: 383
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Clothes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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