This is an analysis of the poem At An Inn that begins with:
WHEN we as strangers sought
Their catering care,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcd efefdXdX gbgbhghg ciciadadXababcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11001 111011 0110 111101 1111 111101 1111 111100 0101 110110 0101 101100 1001 1011111 11110 110101 1111 1100111 0111 111101 0101 110101 0111 011101 1111 110101 1101 111111 0111 111101 01010 111101 1101 111111 1101 1100111 1101 111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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