This is an analysis of the poem Post Office Romance that begins with:
The lady at the corner wicket
Sold me a stamp, I stooped to lick it,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbb cccdXd eeeddd cccccc aaaffX ggXeee eeeaaa aaafff ggghhh iiijj eee Xccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 110111010 110101010 01010101 11010001 10111101 1110101001 01101101 10010111 11110101 111111110 11011101 11110001 11111111 11010111 11010101 11111101 11110101 11111110 111101001 10110101 01010111 01010101 10110101 11100101 11110101 11010101 11000111 11011111 11011101 101101001 11101101 11010100 01011101 11011111 11101101 01110111 100111011 11110111 11011101 01011111 01100100 01110101 11110111 11011011 11110101 01010111 11011011 11111101 111111001 11000101 111101110 111111110 010111110 111111010 010101010 111011010 01011101 01111101 11010101 11110111 11110101 11110101 01011101 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Post Office Romance;
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