This is an analysis of the poem Revenge that begins with:
A spitcat sate on a garden gate
And a snapdog fared beneath;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XdXd aefe fcXX cgeg dbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010110101 1010101 101110111 10101001 11011111 00111101 1010111001 11100101 0101111011 11101001 1101101101 1110111 11111001110 0100111 1101110001 1011111 1110100101 011101 1010101001 0010101 1010100111 1100101 1110101011 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, she, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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