This is an analysis of the poem 'Peaceable Expulsion' that begins with:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
MOUNTWAVE _a Politician_... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXXX C X cdedffgheii X jdhXf X icbkld m ffXbbjbXjjkjkaaihhiaadXXd L Xnggbjj b ckcine X Xbl X iXl L dfgXeXXiXej X if m XfXf C XijXeX X kkee X jj b jXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,1,11,1,5,1,6,1,25,1,7,1,6,1,3,1,3,1,11,1,2,1,4,1,6,1,4,1,2,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010 1001010 100100 110100 1001010 1001010 10 1111110111 1111000101 1111010100 1101110111 0100110001 0100110001 1100110011 1101110101 1101010111 0101010011 0100110111 10 1101111101 1111010111 1111001111 01000101010 0101010 10 111 11100101001 1100110001 0100010011 1011 1011010111 110 111010 110010 010001 100101 100101 10101 110101 10000 1111011 100111 1001 0110100 1001 110100 100110 100101 100100 110100 1101001 100100 100100 1010001 100100 011000 1010101 11 110111011 1111010101 11111111 11111101 1010 111110111 1111011001 10 1011010001 1101000101 1001011111 1111111101 1111110011 111011 10 1101 0101011111 1101 10 111101 1101011110 1011 11 110111 110111111 1101011111 1101111111 1111100111 111010101 011001101 111011101 11100101 111111 1111 10 011001 110 10101010 10101001 01011011 01011011 111001011 1001010 1011111 11010111 01011011 10101101 11111011 11011001 10 1101110101 1111010101 0111110101 1001011101 10 0101011111 11100011 10 11 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 119
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man, we are repeated).

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