This is an analysis of the poem How Deacon Fry Bought A Duchess that begins with:
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round,
For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutches... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefX XghgdibX jklkccac ahcXcbaX bXeceXlb lmnmnmXm oigXcbaX XXjaXbhX oioXbXbX XbfXjbjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 1010101110 11011101 111111010 11000101 110001010 1111101 110111010 11001101 111101010 01010100 111100010 111101101 111111110 01010101 11010110 11111101 011101010 011101001 110011010 11011111 11011100100 01010101 1101110100 11010101 011011110 11110101 110101010 11011110 110111010 11111101 110101010 11010101 001101000 11010111 111101110 01110101 110101110 01110101 111101010 11011101 110111010 11010101 110001110 1011111 11010110 11011101 111001110 11110101 111101110 11110111 110100010 11111101 111101010 11110001 011101010 11100010 011111010 110010101 110101010 11110100 110100010 11010101 110101110 01110111 110011010 11010101 110101010 01010101 1101010010 11010101 111111110 11010111 010111110 11110101 110101010 1010101 110111010 01011111 011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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