This is an analysis of the poem Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal that begins with:

Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,
The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcde eadbcb becabd dbbeac cdabeb bcedba dbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010011101 01011111001 10010011100 1111011111 1111011111 1110010111 1101011111 1111110101 010011100111 1111010001 1011011101 1111100110 01110101010 1101010111 0111111111 1101001111 11110100001 1101011111 1111111101 1111011100 01001010101 1111111101 1111011111 1111111111 1101011101 1101111111 1100110111 1111110110 1111100111 1111011101 0101110101 1111111111 1100111101 0111011101 1101010110 1111000101 1101110111 1011011100 11011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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; an', they, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines die, good, done, world are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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