This is an analysis of the poem The Rhyme Of The O'sullivan that begins with:
Pro Bono Publico
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacbcX cXXX dede XcXc aaaa aXaX bfbf dadX bXXf dbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 110101 110011 110101 100101 010111 100111 110100 1010011 010101 110101 010001 1011101 110111 110111 111101 1010101 110101 110101 111110 1011111 011111 111101 011110 1000101 010101 111101 011101 1010111 111101 111101 11011 1001101 110101 111101 0110000 010111 010100 110100 110101 010111 011101 111101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
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