This is an analysis of the poem The Pencil Seller that begins with:
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy?
I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebeb bcbcefefghghijijcbcb bkbklalaababkakaXdgdXdjejefcfc amamknkn gkgkgmgmekeX aoaobXbgbbbbeaeababXdedeadadkakacgcgejXjeaeXdadaababkmkXaiaickcX gmgXXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,30,8,12,64,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 01111100101 1111111101 1101010101 1111110101 0101000101 1011011111 0111110111 1111010111 0111010111 1111000111 0101001111 0111010111 1111011101 01011110101 1111011111 1111011101 101000011100 1111010101 1101010100 1011010101 0101110101 01010101101 0101110001 0111110111 1110010001 1101010111 0101010101 0101110111 0101110101 0100011111 1111011100 1111010111 0101011111 1101010111 1111010111 0101110001 0101010111 0111011011 1001010101 0111011111 11111111001 0101111111 0101110001 1111011101 1111110001 0111011111 1010101001011 1111011110 1111001101 1111011101 1111 1111 1010101 0111010101 1010111111 1101110101 0111011111 10111100110 10111010111 10110101010 1101111111 1111010111 1111111100 0101011111 0101010101 1111011111 1101111111 1111110001 1111111101 1111110111 1111011001 1101110001 1101010101 1111001101 1101110101 11011110011 1111011111 0101101101 1101111101 101110101011 1010101010100 1010100111101 11110010101 1011110111 1111110101 1000111011101 11011101110 0111111100 10110011101 1010100111101 1011111001 10001011111 110100111001 1111010111 1111010101 1111010001 1111010111 1111010001 101110101101 1111011111 101010101110 1111110101 1111001111 1111010101 1110010111 0111000101 1111010101 1111011111 1011101101 1111110101 1101110001 1111011111 1100011111 1111011111 1100110111 0101110101 1101110101 1010101000101 10100010101 01010111010 0101001100 1101011001 1101111101 1111011101 101010101000 0111010111 0111010101 0101000111 0111010111 1100111101 1101110111 101010110111 1010010001001101 101010111101 1101111111 1101010101 101010111010 1101010101 10101001110101 11000100111 1001110101 10010111001 1101110101 1111000111 111101110100 1111010001 0101110101 0100111101 110101111010 1111010001 1001110101 1111111101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 887
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 154
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, to, his, and, my, her, so, with, she, of, by, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, her, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Pencil Seller;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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