This is an analysis of the poem Jim Carew that begins with:

Born of a thoroughbred English race,
Well proportioned and closely knit, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdefefcdaeaecd gagacd hhhhcdbebecd hfhfcd iiiicX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,6,12,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101101 10101101 11101101 11101111 101100111 110111110 100100011 100110111 100111101 100111101 110100101 011101110 10110111 111111111 110100101 1111011001 1001001001 11100110 100110101 100101101 1010101101 00111001101 1010101101 110100110 100101111 11100101 1110100101 1011101101 1011100111 10110101110 100100101 100100111 100110111 100010010101 1010111111 010100110 111110101 100101111 10011111 100110101 1111100101 100100110 100100111 100101111 1110111101 011110101 110101101 10111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word carew at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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