This is an analysis of the poem The Romance Of Patrolman Casey that begins with:
There was a young patrolman who
Had large but tender feet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcBcB debEbE cXdXfX XgfGXG beXede ba d ahXfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111101 11111101 110101 11110011 110101 01110101 011111 01110101 011101 01010101 011101 11111111 010101 111001101 111111 11011101 111111 11111111 010111 111011001 011101 11011111 011101 11101111 110101 11111100 011111 11010111 011111 10010101 101101 1111010 1 111101 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; he, her, ', 'i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, her, 'i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word anyhow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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