This is an analysis of the poem Incidents In The Life Of My Uncle Arly that begins with:
O my aged Uncle Arly!
Sitting on a heap of Barley... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbbB ccXdddX eeedddX Xeebbbe ffbfffb eXXdddB aXbbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 10101010 10101001 10101010 10111010 00101110 1010111 10101110 10101110 0010101 11101110 100101110 10111010 11101110 10101110 11101010 1100111 11101010 11111010 11100110 1010001 10001010 10101010 1011101 10111110 11101010 10101110 1011101 10101110 01101110 1110111 10101010 10001010 10011010 1010111 11111010 10101010 11111010 01100110 11101010 10101010 1010111 10101010 1111010 1110111 10101010 10111110 10101010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; his, by, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, there are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words ', tight at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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