This is an analysis of the poem The Bulletin Hotel that begins with:
I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand—
Which, I’m told, is very tony—and its front looks very grand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddbb eebb aabb ffbb Xdbb ggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111000101010001 111010101011101 111110100011111 001000101010001 101011101010101 111010101010111 101100101010111 101111100010001 101110100011101 101010101111101 101010110011001 101010100010001 101010101110001 111010101110101 101100101010111 101011101010001 001111101110101 11010010111010111 101110101010101 111110101010001 1001010101010101 101111101010111 111010101110101 101000100010001 111100101110101 011010101111101 101110101111101 111110100010001 11010101111101001 101111101110111 111011101011111 101010100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; i, in, of, and, s 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 but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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 The Bulletin Hotel;
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- idea of the verse;
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