This is an analysis of the poem The Troubles Of Matthew Mahoney that begins with:
In a little town in Devonshire, in the mellow September moonlight,
A gentleman passing along a street saw a pitiful sight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcX bXXX dXee fXgg bbXb XhaX Xfii XXgg bdhX XdXX eeXX jjaa iicj ddXX iijj kkkX kkll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010011001001011 0100100101101001 0110100100101010 111001011100001 100100010010100 1011010101001 10010010111011 1011010111110 10110110010100 101111101110 101010110110 10011011010 101111011011101 111001110100 11111101001 101101011101 11111001101 10111010111010 1110101010010 1011100101101 010011101011101 11110011011111 11111100101110 1001001111010100 10011010100110 1010011010 1101010011 11101111010100 1010100010010 1011011111011 110101101011 11010100111 110110110111010 110101101 10100110011001 10110111001 1011010010100 1011010101011 11010111011110 0110111001100 100111010 1000111010011 11111001111100100 101111111101010 1011111111 1101011111101 1110110111100 10101001010101001100 1010111010100 11001001100 11001111110 1101011010010101 111011101011101 1010110010101 111110010111 1101000010100 11100101001 11100010101110111 1101110110100 101011011110100 1101010100101101 1100011001011001 11010101010010 111111010111001000 101011101101101 1111001011001 11001001101 0110101001010 110010110101 110101110110111 1011000101001 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; in, as, and, you, i, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, but 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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