This is an analysis of the poem Poem Read At The Dinner Given To The Author By The Medical Profession Of The City Of New York, April 12, 1883 that begins with:

HAVE I deserved your kindness? Nay, my friends,
While the fair banquet its illusion lends... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeff gghhiiiiggjj kkffffiiaaddXXgg hheeffffddll XacXmmiiaa iinnhhXcllaa aaaaoohhhdh ccjj dd mmjjgg cciiooddhhllppdd ddaall qqmmiiee ccooiiaiX ccjjii jjll hhaajj rraaflhh iiXahhqqffiihhffssjjiiXsllccffnnjjaXhhsXffaaffaa hhfXgghhXaakkaaggggdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,16,12,10,12,11,4,2,6,16,6,8,9,6,4,6,8,48,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110111 1011000101 1101010111 1011010101 11001010101 11110100101 1101010101 11100000101 1111110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1101110111 1111001111 1101010111 1011010001 1101010101 0101000110 1001110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110111 1111010101 10010001011 1111111100 1001010101 0111101111 1111010101 1101011101 1111110011 1011011111 10111010101 01110100001 0101010101 11010100101 10101000111 0101010101 1101010101 010110100101 1101110111 1011111101 110100001001 0111000101 0101010101 0101110001 0111010101 1011010101 1101010101 1011011101 1111010101 1101010110 1101010101 0101010101 10010101100 1001010101 1011000100 1011010100 1111000111 0101000111 0101010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101011101 1111011101 1101110111 101111000010 01010101010 1001010001 0101110001 1111001010 1011000100111 0101110101 1101010101 1101111101 11110100001 11010011101 1101010011 1101010101 0101110111 0001011101 0001111101 1011010101 0101010101 1111011101 11110101 11 0101111101 1011110001 1101111111 01110001101 0111010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010010101 0101010101 1111011111 11111001101 1011010101 1111010101 1011100101 1011010101 1101011111 1101010011 0101010101 011111101 0011010001 1101010101 1101010111 1101010001 0111010101 1000010011 1101110101 1101010101 01110100101 1101000101 0111000101 0101010111 0111010001 0101011101 1011010101 11110101001 11110011101 1111110101 11011101001 1101001001 0101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1011011001 1011010101 1111010101 1011011101 1111010101 0110011101 1111001001 11010101011001110111 1111110101 1111110101 0111110001 1001010101 1101111001 1111010111 1100010001 1011111101 11010101101 0011010101 0101001001 1111110011 0101010101 1111010101 01010010001 1011011101 11011101001 11001010101 0101010001 1101010101 0111000101 1011010101 101101010 11101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001000101 0101010011 11000110101 01010010101 01010110101 0101110101 1111011110 0101010001 1011011101 1111110111 0101000110 1101011101 1111000101 1011110101 0011000111 1101011011 1011010101 1110011101 1011010111 0111010101 10010100001 0101010110 01011101001 01110010101 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 11110100101 0111000101 11011101010 11010101010 1101010101 01110110101 11010100101 1101000101 0101010101 1011001101 1011010101 1010101100 1001110101 011000111 1001111101 0101010101 01110101001 1101111101 110011100101 1111010111 1111010111 1111010101 1101011101 01001010100 110100101001 1111011101 11001010101 1101011101 1111111101 1111110101 01110011101 0101010111 1101000101 1101110101 1111011101 011000001001 1100110101 01001110101 1011010010 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 231
  • 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; his, to, of, i, ', it, and, new, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, were, to are repeated.

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