This is an analysis of the poem The Modern Major-General that begins with:
I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaaXbXcXAX XcXXXbXXddAX XXXXeeeXXeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001010100 101101001001100 1101010111010100 0101010101010100 0101010101010100 1101010101011000 0101001001000111 0100010101001000 0100110011010100 1101010101010000 010101001001100 1101010001010100 1111010011011100 1101100101011101 110100101010000 0101110101001000 110101000111100 110101000100010100 1111010111010110 1101010101010100000 11110101010001001 1111000101000101 010101001001100 1101010001010100 01111101110000110000 11111101001000100 1101110101001101 111101010111000 1111111101010100 1111010101000100 0111010001010100 1101010100110101 11101010101011000 1100110001000100 110101001001100 1101010001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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; i, with, from, in, when, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, when are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word gineral at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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