This is an analysis of the poem The Allisons that begins with:
ROOF and rafter and window and door
Totter and tumble in slow decay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdcdcXeXecfcfebebgcgchbHbdidijijigigidcdcibibhiHiXkfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011 101100101 0110100111 1010011101 111110101 11111110 011100101 101101111 110110111 100100101 10100111 111100111 10100011 10100101 110111111 11101111 11101101 11111111 10011111 110100101 11011101 100110101 10110101 101110101 101001001 10101101 10101101 10011101 101011001 111001001 100111001 11101111 10100101 11101111 1001011001 111001001 111001001 11110101 10011011 10010111 10101101 100101101 10101101 111001001 11100101 10011101 10011111 100100101 11101111 10111111 11111101 111001111 10010111 101011001 100111001 11100111 11011111 101101101 10011101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2236
- Average number of words per stanza: 416
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, by, to, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dove connects the lines.
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