This is an analysis of the poem A Fine Old English Gentleman that begins with:
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,
Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaBC bbbbbC bbbbBC ddddBc eeeeBC ccccBC ccccbfXddddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101101110011 001011100111101 111010101010011 11010111110101 001110101 111101 00110101010111 01110100111101 01011101110101 11110100010111 001110101 111101 01111101010101 11010101001101 01010001011101 11001100010101 001110101 111101 00111101111011 00111101111101 00111101110101 11010101111111 101110101 101101 01110111010111 11010101110101 11010111010001 11010101110101 101110101 111101 10011101110101 11000111110011 11010101110101 01110101110101 001110101 111101 11001101011001 11111111010111 01110101010001 01011101010101 001110101 100101 01111101011101 010110110100111 11001100110111 11010100010101 001110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; old, fine, english, his, times, in, to, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words again, time at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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