This is an analysis of the poem An Answer To Various Bards that begins with:
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in,
Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their kin, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeaafXaa ggcXgXcX XXhhXaii jjffiikX ggllmmaa iikknnffXffkkkkii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101111100 101010101010011 011010100010001 1010011101011111 111010100111101 111110100110001110 101110101111101 111011101010101 111010101011111 1010001010101001 1110000101101010011 111110101110101 11011101110001 101110100110100 111010100110101 001110100011001 111010100010101 101110100110001 101011101111001 111010000111010100 111001000101110101 11111010001001010 111010111110101 1010101110011110 00111001000101010100 1011111010111000100 101110101010101 101110100110101 101010101010100 101110101110101 111010101110101 101010101010101 111011100010101 111010101011101 101110100010101 111010100010111 101110101010101 001010101010100 101010100010001 10110010001010100 101111101011101 111010100010001 101110101011101 001010101010001 101100101010101 111110100011101 111110100011001 111011111010111 101010101011101 111010101011101 101010101110101 101110100011111 111000101111111 111010101110101 111110100010111 111010100010111 111110101110101 1010010101011111 111010101010101 111010100110111 111110100010111 101010101010111 111010101011101 11010101100001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, we, of, he, i, it, all, in, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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