This is an analysis of the poem Cotter's Saturday Night, The that begins with:
Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq.
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababX cdcddedeX XfXddcdcc ghghXahaa eXXXeXehh ididdgXgg chchXihiX bjbXjkjkk ehXXhlhll cbcbbabaX imimXcmcc cccXcaXaa fcfccbcbb djdjjdjdd nhnXhbhXb jcjcccicc XdXddbdbb ciciiaiaX hihiicicc dcdXccccc aiaiiaiaaXciciicicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101 1101011101 1101110001 1011000101 0111010001 11000100010100 11110010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101010111 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1100010110 1101011100111 0101111101 0101010101 0101010101 0101110101 0111010111 0101010111 0101010101 1001011101 11010010111001 1101010101 010100111 10101110101 01111100111 011101010 0111010101 0101010101 1101011101 111101011101 1001011100 1101100101 110111111 011000101 1101110101 01011100001 1101010111 1100011101 010101010100 01100101101 11110101010 01010110101 1101011111 0101011100 0001010101 0101010101 1111101101 010101110101 110111001 010111001 1111011101 1111110111 10101010110 1111010111 1010011101 0101010101 1101011101100 1101110001 1011010101 11010111001 0111011101 0101010101 1001011101 11110101001 1101000101 110101011101 1101010111 0101110101 1101010111 0101010111 01010110011 1111011101 0101010111 1101110111 110101010101 1101111001 11110010101 111010101 11010011001 1010010100101 1100010101 1101010101 0101110101 01011111010100 0101011101 0101010111 1101011001 0111010101 1101010101 1101010111 0111010101 100101001011 110101110101 1101011101 01001010101 011101101 1101010101 0111010001 01010110101 1111111101 010110001 110101111101 01010111001 1101010101 010110010101 0111010101 0101000101 011010111 1111010101 1101000101 11011010110101 1111010101 1111110101 01101100101 1101010001 11010101011 0101010101 0101010111 01011111001 11001101101 0111010101 1011010111 1101010111 0100100100 1101010101 01010100101 1101011101 1110110010 110101110101 0101010001 1101110111 11110100101 1111100101 1011001101 01111101001 111101010 1001010101 1111010111001 11010100101 0101010101 110010101010 1111110101 110101001 1101110101 010101101 0101001111 1100111010101 0100110101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 0111010010 0101010001 1100110101 1111010001 100101011110 1101111101 0101000101 0101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010101 1011110101 110011010101 01111100101 1101110101 1011110101 101010101010 11001101001 0101010101 1001010101 0101010101 100101010001 110111101 11110101001 1111010101 0101111110 11110110101 0100010111 11001110101 01001001101 1101010011111 1111010101 1111000101 1101011001 11010101001 01001010011 01100100101 1101010110 110100101001 010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 195
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, and, some, to, an', this, or, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, an', o, they, or, how are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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