This is an analysis of the poem Showing How Mr. Hiram Twine that begins with:

Vide licet. Dere vas a fillage whose vote alone vouldt pe
Apout enof to elegdt a man und give a mayority, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaba ccXXX ccdd XaXe bbfgX hhhcc Xiacc XahjXXe cXgg XXkk bXbdd eeii XXXhh hhkX kXiXi XaXeX XXeX XXXfX XXXhh eejfXf jacX ddXcXc XXakXXc hhXgg XjXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,4,5,5,5,7,4,4,5,4,5,4,5,5,4,5,5,6,4,6,7,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010110111 1010010011101000 10111111001 10101 11111011111 1111 1111000101101101 0111100110111 010001000101001 1101110101011000 101 111010001110111 11111110100111 11111001000110101 111011110111111 110001100111010 1100010111011 11000111110101 11110000111001 1010011100010111 1100111100010001 1010011101011001 11111110111 0101 11110101111 1011 01010101011001 1111110010111 110011011100101 11111101110101 11111010111 1101 1111110110101 111101011100001 101010101 11011001 11111110110101 1111110111 111101 110111111 11101 110110110111101 11011001001101 1101101000011100001 11001111001011101 110010101101110 110010111110110 01001001101001 1010101101010001 110101111001 1110011001111 0111 1111100101101 11111001101111 11011010110101 11100110100111 11111110110101 11111000111011 11111010010111 1111110010110 101 11001000111001 11010101111101 101010001011111 001010001110001 101111100110101 10110101011101 11010101110101 11110101110101 11010110110101 1111111010 100111 110111010110110 11101010111111 110111010110 0010 111100101111100 11110010100111 111111110111101 1111110110111111 11111111011011111 101010111010010 11011010110 01001 1101001001010101 1101001000110111 11101101110111 111111011110101 1111101111100 111 1110110011110101 11011001110101 111010101110101 1101101111111 10101 1100110110100 101 111000100110010111 10111011101001 111011101110111 11010001101100 111001110010111 11011010111011 11101011101 10111 11011001011101 1001 111010101010 1010 11111101110111 10101110011 100101 101010001111 101 1101101001110100011 10111011010101 1111111111001 111101 0010010000101101 1101100110001 1101100101101 11011000100101 111100110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 123
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, und, de, dey, dat, he, of, i, shdop, him, some, vell are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, oh are repeated.

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Showing How Mr. Hiram Twine;
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