This is an analysis of the poem The Batchelors Song that begins with:
Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail,
Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in a Jail,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXccXbddbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101001011001 110001101001 11010001 111001 1001111111 101001 1010101 1101000100 01111101011 01001101001 0010010011001 111111110001 111101110101 11101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, in, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, or, the are repeated.
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