This is an analysis of the poem The Absent-Minded Beggar that begins with:
When you've shouted ' Rule Britannia,' when you've sung ' God save the Queen,'
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdcdeFGeFhihibdbdjfGjf gcgcjdjddfGdF kXkXjdjdlFGlF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110011111101 11101010011 011010100110101 10100010101 111010101010011 11111111111 101110101010101 111010101011 1111100101 1010111100101 100100101 11011011 101111011111 111110101010100 11111010010 101111101011101 101110101001 1111101001010111 111010101011 101011100010101 111011101011 1111100101 10010100010101 100100101 11011001 1011110111111 111001101110111 11111110101 1111111010100101 00111010101 111010101110101 101010101011 11011101010111 001011101011 11111001001 11101101111101 100100101 11011001 101111011111 111011101111001 1111110101 111101000010101 10111111110 111010101110101 111110100011 111000101110101 111011101011 1111100101 1010111100101 100100101 1111101 101111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 920
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; ', when, you've, him, and, son, he, pay, s, of, job, his, home are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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