This is an analysis of the poem The Duties Of An Aide-De-Camp that begins with:
Oh, some folk think vice-royalty is festive and hilarious,
The duties of an A.D.C. are manifold and various, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeeX ffdggd hhdiid hedjXd ggjkkX llmkXm llXgXk llXnnb bbXnnX kkgkkg XbmooX llbnnb aaXheX XlXeXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110001010100 01001111011100 11011101 01001101 101001 001001 1111010111 111011 1101011 00100100110 111101 111011 11011010110 101111 111001 1111110010 1110110 010110 1011011111 01011 111001 1010011111 1110010 011011 110011010 101101 11110010 1111010010 111011 011111 1010101011 111101 111001 100100111110 111101 111101 0010111010 111111 10110100 1000011010 111010 110110 110110110 101001 11100100 11100010010 111010 011010 111110100 101101 101001 1010010010 111110 111010 111010110 111101 10100011 11101110100 111011 111101 1011011010 111001 111001 111111110 1110100 111010 1111010110 111001 001001 101011100100 111001 111011 010110010 001101 101101 1111011010 111111 001101 101001101000 1001000 010001 10110110000 111011 101101 1010010110 111101 1011 1011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, keep are repeated.
The author used the same words we, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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