This is an analysis of the poem De Stove Pipe Hole that begins with:
Dat's very cole an' stormy night on Village St. Mathieu,
W'en ev'ry wan he's go couché, an' dog was quiet, too--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX cXXd eeff cXgX eeXg eegg XghX gXdd bXcX XXXe XXhX bbdd bbXg XXee iidX ffbX hhXX dXdX iifX Xgba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101110110 1101111111101 10010111110110 11010101010100 10011111110101 11110101111001 1111110110101 11101111110111 1101101110101 1111111111101 11011110110101 110111100110111 10011101111101 1111101111011 11010111111101 1101011011010 01110111110101 11111001110101 11010101110100 11011101100101 11110101010101 11111101110101 01011101110101 11111111111101 1101110111011 10111101011101 11111110111101 111101111101110 11011100111100 10111111111100 11011101111101 11110101010101 11011001111001 11111101111111 11011101010101 111111000110110 11011111111111 101110011111101 11101101011110 101101101111101 11011101011111 1001011111010 11111101110111 010111011111100 11011111111101 11010101111101 01101110010101 11110111110111 10010111111101 11011101111111 01111101111111 10011111011101 1001111111110 01110101010100 11111111110101 10110111101101 11110101010111 111111101011111 11110111011101 101111011111010 11011111110101 11011101110101 1111110110101 10111111011110 1010010110111 11111101110101 10111101111100 1010111011110 11110101110101 11011111110101 01011111111101 111111111111010 10101001011111 11011101111101 11010111011101 1101111111110 111101111101 11011101110101 11011101110001 1101110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, de, i, me, on, ', ma, heem, you, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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