This is an analysis of the poem The Carlysles that begins with:
[I was talking with a newspaper man the other day who seemed to think that the fact that Mrs. Carlyle threw a teacup at Mr. Carlyle should be given...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b ccddeeXXffbbee f Xc X c X fX X Xb X aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,14,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001101010111011011101110111101110100010101011010100010010101100101001001010100100111101111100101110010101111111101110110101001001111010110011010101101101010110111011101011010011001010111010011001010110110101010101001011110111101010101011110101010001010100100101 1111010 1010111011 110100111 111110101 11011111 110111011 110100011 011101110 11110101 10110001101 111111101 010111101 1110111101 111110011 1110100011 111101 10100100111101110010111001 1010100 011100 0110101010110111101101000111 01110000100 011101100110010101101110111001011110100110101111010101001 1011011011010101011001010010011 01110110 100010111101010011011110100100001001001100011010111000101001001001010100101000111 01001010001010100111100111001011011001000100111001010010010011010011001010111010000101010101110101001111001001010010101101100100010010010100100010101010000101111011101100100100100100111100100010010 011100101000 000101101011110111101111010101101010110100 0010010110111001110100101111010100101110010111101001100101111000110111001011000110101001111101100010100001011011111011110101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 98 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and, fact, to, with, servant, in, what, carlyle, i, that, you, of, mr, department, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Carlysles;
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