This is an analysis of the poem On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H. that begins with:

So here the great man stood,
fermenting malice and poems...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbXefgeXhhiidfbjbebebakleafeliiembbancghXckemeXbbcbXdjehneX Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 01010110 11001011 010111 100111010 10110100 01010111 11011010 1111011 1011101010 10111111 1100100010 110010010 10101110 11010110 111101010 101001110 101010101 1110110 101001011 11111111 110101110 001010111 1101010110 1010101 0011111 101111101 001011101 001011101 0100110110 01101010011 111010111 1101010010 1111110110 10101001 11010111 1111010 01011111010 01100111 11010101 1010111 1111111 0111001 101001000 11110101 11010110001 010110111 10100010011 1101111 1000101 0100100110 0100111001 10111110 01011110 1111001 1110100 01001101 0101111 110111111 1011101 11101 111101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1080
  • Average number of words per stanza: 196
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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