This is an analysis of the poem My Cousin From Pall Mall that begins with:
There’s nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,
Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ddee ffcc bbgg hhhh ccii jjkk gghh eell mmee kkiX iihh mmii kkbb gghhXffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010110000010101 110001010110111 10100010110100101 11110101010101 111000101011101 11111100011101 11010111110101 01010100010001 1010111011010111 110111110011101 111010101111101 10101001010100111 101010101100101 11010101111111 11110101110001 010101110101001 111011101110111 110111001111101 110111011010101 111111111100101 111111001011001 111110011111101 110100111010101 110110101110101 11010101010101 11110100010101 0101110111111 111111111110001 1100011000010011 110011100010111 11101011110101 111010101010001 1111110110111 11010101110101 1110101011010001 010100101011101 11101100101101001 01010101111111 01110100010101 111111101110111 111000111010101 111010101111101 1111011111101 111010111010101 1101110111101 10111100010101 111010101011101 010101001010100 111101010100101 101010110110001 01100100011101 1011100101010101 11011111010101 11111111010111 01111101110101 110111011010111 11011101110101 11110111011101 110001010011101 11000101011001 111101111001001 101010100110110 11110111010101 11110101010011 11101100110111 11010111110111 1100110111101 11111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, his, he, of, and, my, to, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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