This is an analysis of the poem In Defense that begins with:
You may say, if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girls
Are crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc ffaa gghh ggcc XghX bbhhXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101111 11001011111 111101011101 11001001001 11011001011 11001011001 11011001001 01101001011 11001011001 01001001001 11001011101 11000011001 01101111001 00110100101 11011111001 11011111001 11011101001 01101111001 101011111111 01001011001 11001101111 11011000110 11001001111 111111101001 11011011011 101101001001 11001011001 0101010101 11001011001 01001001111 101001001101 11011001001 0110100101 111011111111 1111000111001 111001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; your, to, and, she, of, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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- summary of In Defense;
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