This is an analysis of the poem To My Old Readers that begins with:
You know 'The Teacups,' that congenial set
Which round the Teapot you have often met;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeefX gghX eeiijjffkkhhllgg iibbffbbmm ggggddbbee hhddbbdXaaXmbbeebbhhhhXXaa bbaXnnaagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,16,10,10,26,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1101111101 0101011101 1101000101 1011110101 11111101001 11010101001 11010100101 11110011111 1100100111110 1001010101 11001010101 1011010101 01010010100 1001011101 1101000101 11010010101 1111011111 0101110101 11111111001 0101010101 0111010111 01111110111 0101000101 11010101001 0101010101 1011010101 1110010101 1001010111 0111010111 1011010111 0101010101 11010100111 1011010101 1111010101 10010000101 110111001010 11110100110 1101010101 11010011111 1101110111 11010100101 1101010011 1011110101 1111101101 11010010101 1101010101 1101011111 1101011101 0101010011 1101110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010100 0111011111 0101011111 0111000101 0111010101 01110101001 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 111011101 1101011101 11010111100 10010010101 1101011101 1011011101 1101011111 11001000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010111 11010100101 1111000111 1111011011 1111110111 1101010001 1111010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1101011101 1111100101 11010100101 01010011101 1001111101 1011010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 565
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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; you, ', we, of, have, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, why, our, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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