This is an analysis of the poem The Old Trundle-Bed that begins with:
O the old trundle-bed where I slept when a boy!
What canopied king might not covet the joy?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd XXccbbdd ddeeffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101101111101 11001111001 01011011001 101101001001 01101101001 11001001011 101001001001 101101101101 101101111001 01101011001 001001111001 101101011001 111011001001 101011001001 111011101001 101001001101 101101101101 001101011101 01011101001 11111001001 01011001101 001101011001 111010111001 111011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; from, of, and, old, my are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bed is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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