This is an analysis of the poem Callaghan's Hotel that begins with:
There's the same old coaching stable that was used by Cobb and Co.,
And the yard the coaches stood in more than sixty years ago;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb aabb aabb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101111111 101010101110001 101010101110101 10111101110001 1001111111110101 101111101010001 101111101011101 101011101110001 111000111010101 001010101010101 101110101110101 101110101110001 101110101011101 101010101010111 1011101011111001 111011101010001 111110100011111 111011101010101 1010111001110101 101001101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, same, old, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hotel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Callaghan's Hotel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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