This is an analysis of the poem An Episode that begins with:
There was a man rode into town one day,
Barefooted, hatless, and without a coat.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacadcad X effeeffeabXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100111 10001010101 0101010101 01010011101 1001110101 11110100101 1101101111 1101110111 1111011111 1111110111 1111111101 1101110101 0111011111 1111111101 1 1111011111 1101110111 1101110001 0101011111 1101010011 1011110101 1001110101 01011001001 1101010111 1111011101 1111110101 1011111111 01110011101 0111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, his are repeated.
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