This is an analysis of the poem The Old Arm-Chair that begins with:
I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa aaddeeaa ffeeeeaa ggeehhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101111 0111101111 1100110101 1100001101001 11110101011 1010110101 1110101011 1010101111 010101101 010101001 110111011 0110111101 111111001 0111111111 1110111001 111011111 111101001 1011110101 1111100111 1100100101 01110111 1101101111 11110111 1110101111 1111111101 010011101 111111111 110010101 100101111 101011111 11101101101 110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; it, to, my, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i've, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word chair at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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