This is an analysis of the poem Annie Protheroe. A Legend Of Stratford-Le-Bow that begins with:
OH! listen to the tale of little ANNIE PROTHEROE.
She kept a small post-office in the neighbourhood of BOW;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb Xcdd bbee bbff ggff ffXbb hhbX iijX bbaX jjcc aaXX ffjj kklL hXbX jjXb iijX hhlL ffbX mmaa bbhh jjbXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010101010 11011100010001 11010101110001 01010100111101 11111110100111100 11011111010101 11110101010101 11010100011001 010111001010111 1011101101010001 11110101010101 11010101010101 110111011101001 11010100110001 11110101011101 11010101001001 10110100110101 11010101010101 11011111010101 11010100010101 10010101111111 10100100110001 1101110101110 1 001010101010001 11011101010101 111010100010101 1001111101011001 010101010101010 11010101110101 01010100010101 11010101110101 111101010101000100 11010100110001 101110101110101 11101100010001 111101010100010 11011100011101 11010101010111 111010100010001 101011101110111 101010100011111 01010101110011 010101010101110 1101010111001010 11010100010101 11011101010001 11010100110001 101010101110001 11000101110001 11100101010001 01000100010001 11110101010101 110110101111101 11011100110011 111000101010111 010101010101010 10100101010010101 11110100110001 010101110111010 1101101101110101 11010100010101 11010101110001 1110010110001 11011000111000100 01010101010101 001010110010001 11010101010001 11110101010101 01010101010101 11010101010101 01011001010101 1101010101010100 11010101110001 101011111111001 01011101010101 11111101110111 101111101110101 111101010100101 11000101110101 111010100111111 101011101111101 010111011000011 11101111011101 111011011101010 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, would, of, you, it, that, his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, of, he are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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