This is an analysis of the poem Who’s Dot Pulleteen? that begins with:

To the Editor of The Albany Observer
Dear Sir,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xb bbXcbXX XaXcbbaX dXddXc c XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,7,8,6,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010000100010 11 100001001110010000101010001100101001011000100101011101100101101001100110001010100111101101011010011110010101001001010001011001011000101010110 1111111110 11101110 1110111 1011100 10111110 11101110 1110100 1111111110 11101010 11101000 1010100 01111010 1011110 01101010 0110100 11101111 11001000 11111011 11101011 01101111 1110100 101010 10111100 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bulletin, of, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ven, und are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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