This is an analysis of the poem Tomlinson that begins with:
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,
And a Spirit came to his bedside and gripped him by the hair --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXbbXdeXaafgXaaHhbXiiedXaabXjfXdddX kkddijcjdfdggbbddbXffffkXaadXHhXXkkeXcceXjXbXdXbXddiXlleebbeedXggccfXmmbXaeaddaaffddffbbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,90,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011010010101 101010011111101 010111011101101 111101001110100101 1110100101111111 1110010101110101 101111100110111 00110101011101101 001101010101011100 1010101001110111 101101110111011111 11111011101011100 101110101010101 11111101110101 1111100101 111111 10101111111011110 11001111110111 10101110111110111 01110101011101 110011011100001 101110010111011101 1011110101100101000 00111101111101 11010101010011 111111111011 10010101 10100101111110111100 11001111110001 1010110101110101 100111101111011111 101110101100101000 11111111101 1110101 11010101010001 11111101010111 11110101111101 111100101111101 10111101010111000 01011101111111 1110010101110101 01110111011101 1011101001110101 1111111111 0100101 1111111111 00100101 01110101011001 111001011 110100111 01011010110100101 111010100111111 1010100111111011 1011101111111101 1111010101111111 1110111110011111 11110101110111 011100010111011010 11001111110101 01000101110111 11001111110101 01000101110111 101101110111011011 10111110111111010 101100101010101 11111111110101 11101100101111111 101111111111111100 01110101011101 110011011100101 1011110100111101001 1111101110111111100 010111010011100101 1011111101110100111 11110010011010110 111101100111011010 11001111111101 1111010010010101 1001110110010011001 1011100101101001110 11111111101 1010101 11111101101 101010010 1100110111001010 111111111010101010 010110101110101 101101100101111001100 0101101011010101 1111010100111001001 11111111110101 110101010001010 100111011111010 11111110100101010 10011101110101 1101001011010101 111100101110101 11111111011110101 111001011111101001 1100110011101101 11101111011111001 1101111111110010 0101101101110111 1011010101111111 11111111101111 11001111111011 101110101110101 1111101100101001010 0101110101110101 11101010011100101 101111101111101 01101111001111001100 0101111011011101 111010010011 10010111 11111110010101 110111011100111 10111111010111 111111111110101 111010110111110111 1111001011010101 011010101111111 1111101001111101 11010111011101 11110101111111 1101001011101101 11011001011101101 1011111111111111 101111001010011000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2839
- Average number of words per stanza: 549
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, and, he, in, ye, have, this, i, to, with, they, may, that, would, love, of, on, ha', said, his, we, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, the, ye, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Tomlinson;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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