This is an analysis of the poem The Brass-Pot And Stone-Jugg that begins with:

A brazen Pot, by scouring vext,
With Beef and Pudding still perplext,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbbcccddeeffeegggXhhiijjeeXXkkiilllliijjjjhhmmllkkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111001 01110110 011010101 10010101 10111001 11110101 01111101 11110101 11010111 01110111 111100010 111001010 010101110 111110010 110101001 01100101 110110110 110100110 101101010 111111010 100111110 10100101 101111010 110101110 110111010 110111010 11101111 01111101 111101110 011111010 111001100 101101100 010010011 11011101 111101010 100111110 111101010 100101010 0110101 11110101 111101110 010101010 11110001 11110101 110101110 110100010 110111010 011000110 110011101 11111001 010101010 110101010 01010101 11010001 11011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2004
  • Average number of words per stanza: 365
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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