This is an analysis of the poem The Stoddards that begins with:
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night,
To visit with my honest, genial friends, the Stoddards hight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddee ffggcc ffhhgg ddddhh ddXeaa ddggii hhddgg aaffXd ggaaXX aajjbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101111010111 01001101010101 11001101111101 11111101111101 01010101010111 01010100010001 01110101110101 0010010101010101 111110101010101 01010110010101 11011101110101 110010111111001 10010101110111 11010101110001 110101010101011 110101001111001 01010111110101 1111110111101 1101010010101 01111111110101 01001101110101 010011001010101 01010100010101 010001011101010 11111101110111 11010111011101 11010011010111 11010100010101 11010100010101 11110111110111 01011100010101 11010101010111 11101111010010 110101010010101 1111110010101 111010101110111 110101000100001 11010101111101 111111010101001 111010101110101 11011101111111 110111011111111 11010101111101 010011101011111 11101101111101 11110101110111 11010001001101 111110111011101 1111110110100101 010111011100111 10110001110001 11011101110111 1110101011111010 1101110010101 1100011010111 11010111110111 11010101110011 01010101111011 10111001111101 01010101110100 11111111000101 10110011110111 101010100100101 101110101101111 101010111110101 11010100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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; i, to, when, and, like, me, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines things is repeated).
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- summary of The Stoddards;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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