This is an analysis of the poem The Port Phillip Patriot that begins with:
Oh, what a wretched, loathsome, thing am I,
Too horrible for earth, or the pure heaven, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXdedeafabgagabchchb bgbghXhdXgiiffgigihaahdcdcdbdbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 11001110110 1011101101 010101 1111111011 1111001101 1101110011 110110 11111001 11010101 00110101 110101 1111010101 11010101001 1101110101 010110 11010111 11010111 11011111 11011111 01010111 010101101 1111 1101 1101 101101 0101111101 1111111111 01011100101 01010101001 1111000101 1111010110 10010111001 1111110101 011111100010 0101010101 0111010111 1111010111 111101110110 0111010100 11010011111 1111110101 1101101101 1110110101 1111110111 0101111101 1111110101 1111010101 11111011101 1111010101 11110111011 1111010011 11111101001 1001010011 1110000011 0101110101 1111010111 1111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1180
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; or, me, in, your, my, i, and, that, they, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, my, with, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).
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- summary of The Port Phillip Patriot;
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