This is an analysis of the poem The Cane-Bottom'D Chair that begins with:
In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars,
And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddaa eecc ffeX gghh aaXc eebb eebb aabb ddbb ddbb hhbb iibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011011101 101011001001 01001101101 101101011101 01001001001 1010101101101 101101101101 01101011001 01101001011 01011011011 1101111011 11001011101 11011011011 11001011101 01101001001 11011001111 110011010010 1010110111010 111001011011 001001101010 11011001001 11011011011 01011101011 101001011001 111010101101 111011111111 11100110110 01001001111 101011011011 101111111001 101001011001 11011111101 1010101101101 00101111011 11011011011 11111111101 01111001011 01111111011 11111111001 11111001101 01101011001 101101101101 01101101001 111111011101 11111011101 101001101001 11011001101 01011111101 101011101001 001001111101 11101111101 11011011101 11001101011 11111011011 11011011111 11011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, old, i, her, in, on, my, of, she, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words old, i, and, she are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word chair at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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