This is an analysis of the poem The Boss Of The Admiral Lynch that begins with:
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day
Of President Balmaceda and of how he was sent away. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeffffffgghhhheeaaii jjaahheeffhhgg hhkkffffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,14,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101101011100101 0101100010111101 0111101011110101 1110110101110101 110010101101111 111110101111101 10111101011101001 1100111100101101 1011011010100111 1111111101110101 1011110101110101 010010101110101 1010111101101101 01011001101011001 1010111101101111 01010110001100111 010110101011101 11101110111101 1010011100111101 10100111111001001 111110001100111 1100011010110101 0101101010100111 110000101101001 1011110100101 10100101100101 11101001010101111 1010011110100101 111111100100101 11011110110001 1111010100110111 1111101111101101 11111000101101101 11110111000100101 1111010100110111 110010101110111 11101010111101001 0111010101110101 110111101100101 11101001110100111 0110111010100101 100110101100101 0100101011100101 1110101010001001001 110010101100101 110010101100101 1011101110110101 11101011011100111 111111001101101 1110110010101111 11100001011001001 110010001100101 1010011100111101 10110101000111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1206
- Average number of words per stanza: 227
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, they, his, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lynch at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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