This is an analysis of the poem An Address To The Rev. George Gilfillan that begins with:
All hail to the Rev. George Gilfillan of Dundee,
He is the greatest preacher I did ever hear or see.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaaabbddbbeeccbXbffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011110001 10010101010111 10010101 10101010101 01111001011 1000101101001 1100011101 0101011111 110001110101 01100101000011 11100101101 11111010001 11101 0110010000101 1111010101 1101010010101101 11101001010010 110110100111110 011111011100111 101110101010111 10110111 101011110111001 100111 11110001110111 1010101111101 110111010110011 1111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1308
- Average number of words per stanza: 254
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; to, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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