This is an analysis of the poem Marvellous Martin that begins with:
Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbear
To question thus his friend, What prig goes there?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXccddeeccffccbb ggddeeehhaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011110 0101011111 1111011101 11010010101 1100110101 0111010111 0011001101 0101110001 0011111001 1111110101 1101010101 0101011101 1111000111 1101011101 1111010111 0110001101 1101010011 1111010001 11001000101 1010111101 11000111011 1101100101 1111010101 1111001111 11010011111 1011111101 0101000111 0111110001 1101010101 11010001010 11010101010 1111110111 1100010001 1101010111 11010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 774
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and are repeated.
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