This is an analysis of the poem Her Father's Dinner Pail that begins with:
I see her every day at noon
Slip thro' the crowded street ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX bb cd c e fe fb cd C X fX fX ca c e bX bf ceXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111 110101 11110101 1100101 01011111 010101 11000101 010101 110000101 110101 11110101 110101 11010111 110101 01111101 010101 1101010 010101 1111111 110101 11010101 110011 11011111 010101 01011111 11101 11001111 110111 11011111 110101 01110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 48
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, how, and are repeated.
The author used the same words her, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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