This is an analysis of the poem The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters that begins with:
I should like, good friends, to mention the disaster which befell
Mr. William Perry Peters, of the town of Muscatel,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb bbcc ddee Xaff dddd ggbX gghh eebb ddhh bbiX ddhX jjkk ccXX bbee iiXh eecc ddll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010100010101 101010100010100 11010100010101 101000101010000 01000111110001 111010101010001 11011101010101 11010101110001 101010100010101 0101010100001 011000100010111 101110111010001 11101100010100 101010111010011 101010100100111 111110100011101 10110101100001 111001001010001 0111000010101 11011111010101 10010100010101 11110001010001 11110101011101 111010100011100 111010101110101 01100100010011 11000100110101 101010100010101 001010101010101 001010101010101 001000101010101 001010101010101 101000100010001 111000101110101 11111100010101 01010100010101 0110111010101 11000111110101 01000110010001 11110111100101 11010101010001 11010101010001 01111001010110 101010100010100 111010100110001 101010101010101 101001001111111 111000101010001 111110101010101 011000100010001 101000100010101 001010101010101 111010100110101 101111101011101 111110010001001 111101111110101 11010101110111 01110100111111 110101011111101 11110101010111 11111000010111 01011011110001 11111111010011 11110101100101 11010100010001 11010101010101 01000101010001 01001101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; to, of, that, his, in, he, gone, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, gone are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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