This is an analysis of the poem With Mine Own Petard that begins with:

Time was the local poets sang their songs
Beneath their breath in terror of the thongs... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbbccaaddcceeffffXeXcaaaaggccffcccccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0111010001 1101111101 1101011101 1011010111 0111110101 10111101001 1101010011 11011000101 0111011111 11011111001 0101010101 0101000101 1011010101 1111110001 1101010101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010101 10001111110 110110011100 11011100101 10101010110 0100110101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010111 0101110111 1101110101 1111110111 10010110011 1111001101 10111011101 1101010101 1011001001 0101011101 11111101001 1101010101 01011101010 11010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 311
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, my, them are repeated.

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