This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Ix: Amusements that begins with:
OF our Amusements ask you?--We amuse
Ourselves and friends with seaside walks and views,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,35,43,12,3,35,26,19,63,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101011101 0111011111 110101010101 1101010101 11010100101 0111100111 1011010101 1001111101 1101111111 1101110001 1101011001 1101010101 1101110011 1101011101 01010010101 1011110111 1011110001 1101010101 0111010101 1101011101 01001000101 1011010101 1101111100 0101010101 1101001111 1101010101 1101010101 1011010111 0101110101 1111100111 1111000101 1111010101 11010101001 1101010111 0101010101 01110011111 1101010111 1101000101 11010010101 1101001010010 11011100110 1100011100010 1011111101 0101110101 1111011101 1111110001 1101111111 0101010101 1001011101 0101010111 1101110111 1111110110 01110010111 1111110111 111101110 1 1101111001 1001011111 0001010101 1101000101 1111000111 1111110101 1111010101 11010010101 1101010101 1101010111 11010101001 1101010111 0101010111 1111010101 1101011101 1011001101 1001110101 1101010101 1110111100 0011111101 1111110101 1001000101 1011010101 0101010111 1101111111 1101001001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1011011111 0011000101 1011011101 1111000100 110101011 1 1101110111 0101111101 1101011101 11110101011 11010000101 1101010101 1001001101 11110110101 10011011001 1111111101 01001110110 10010110101 11010110110 1111010101 1101000101 1101110011 1111010101 1101100111 1011110111 1101011111 1111011111 0101110101 1111110101 1111010111 0101111111 1010111101 1101110101 0111010101 1111010111 1111010101 0101010101 1011010101 1111111101 1101010111 1101111101 1111110111 0111001101 1001000101 11111100101 1101100101 1101000100 111101011 1 1001010101 1111010101 1011010110 0101110111 11011110101 01111100101 0101010111 10011101101 1101010101 0011110001 10111111 01 1101000101 110101111 1 1011010101 11010010111 1110011101 1101010101 11110101001 0111011100 11011101001 1101011101 0111111101 10110001001 1111010101 1011110101 1001010101 1101011101 1101110111 1101000101 1101010101 0101000101 11010010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 1101000101 1111011111 0101110101 1101110001 10011110101 11010111001 0101010001 0101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1011110101 111111111 1 1101010011 11010101001 1111010011 0101110011 0111011101 1101110101 11010100101 1111010110 1101010101 1101110101 1101000101 11011100101 1111010111 1011110011 1111111101 11110010101 0111100101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 11011101010 01010101010 0101010101 11011011010 11010101110 1 1111010101 1001110101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010111 11010101100 1011010101 01001010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101110101 0111111101 1101010101 111111111 1 0101010111 1101110111 1011110101 1101110101 0100111001001 1111011101 1101000101 1001010011 1001111101 1111110101 0111010111 1101110111 1101011101 0011010101 0111111101 1001011101 1111011101 0111000101 1101010101 1111010011 10011011001 11110111010 0111010111 1101000101 01110111001 1111010101 1101011101 1111111101 0111010101 0111110101 1111011101 1101101001 0101110001 1111010101 1111010111 1101010111 1101110101 11110101001 11010011001 1111110101 1111110101 1101001101 1101010111 1101010101 1111100101 0101010101 1111111110 1011010101 1111011101 01100010101 1101110101 11010101001 1111011111 0111110101 11010100110 1111111101 1011010101 1011110001 1101010101 1101010101 1011011101 111101011 1 1001110111 1101011111 1101110011 11010101011 1101000111 1001101101 0101110101 1101110101 10010101001 01001010101 11010001101 1011011101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1332
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 305
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and, of, they, all, to, pains, you, with, her, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, for, and, when are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pains connects the lines.
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- summary of The Borough. Letter Ix: Amusements;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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