This is an analysis of the poem Matthew Arnold On Hearing Him Read His Poems In Boston that begins with:
A stranger, schooled to gentle arts,
He stept before the curious throng;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc dede dcdc dfdf ghgh iXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110101001 01001101 010111 11110100 11010111 11010100 010101 11111101 01111101 010101001 010101 00110101 11001101 11011101 110111 11100101 11010001 11111101 010111 11000101 01010101 110100111 110101 11010101 01011101 1011001 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
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