This is an analysis of the poem The Alleys that begins with:
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,
I was petted in a garden and my triumph was complete.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbaaddaad eeffggf hhggccg iihhaah jjbbbXb kkccddc XXddlld eemmjjmXaajemme
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101011111 111000101110101 111010101010101 101110101010101 10111010 10111010 101110111010101 111010101010101 111010101110111 101110111011111 101000101011101 10101010 10111010 101000101011101 1011001010011001 101000101010111 101100101010101 101010101011101 00100010 0010010 101100101011101 1011101001111111 111110101010101 101010101011101 101010101010111 10111010 00101010 1110010101011100 001010101111101 011010101110111 001110100010001 001010101010101 101110010 10111010 101011101010101 101010100010100 101000101111100 101110101011101 101110100011001 11111111 10101010 101010101010001 10101001011100101 101000101010001 1111010101001 10100100101010111 10101010 11110010 111100101010111 001010100010111 111000101101001 001010101111101 111000101111101 11111110 10100010 111010101010111 101111111110101 111010101011111 111111111110101 101111101111001 10111110 10101110 001111101110101 101011101011101 101111100011111 111011101010110 101011101010101 11111110 11111110 101110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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; and, i, in, to, who, from, of, alleys, you, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, where, and, to, from, tales, oh, there, call are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines houses, them are repeated).
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- summary of The Alleys;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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