This is an analysis of the poem Pumberly Pott's Unpredictable Niece that begins with:
Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece
declared with her usual zeal...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fefe gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101001 01001001 11101011101 01011001 11001101011 1010011010 111001101111 1010110110 110101101011 101101011 1011110111111 1011010101 101001111001 1011010110 11101001101 1011010010 1011110110011 1011010010 11111010101 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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