This is an analysis of the poem A Farewell To Tobacco that begins with:
May the Babylonish curse
Straight confound my stammering verse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddddeebXcc ffffgggbbhh aaaaiiaaX aajjXaXf eeeekkjjdd fflljXeeddjj iiffkkjjdd ccXfmX mXebbaallaXggaaXfkkXleeeaaXd ddddkkmmaa bbbbjjffddddffjjffnnoojjdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,11,9,8,10,12,10,6,28,10,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001 10111001 0110101 0010100 1010101 1010011 1010111 0110111 1010101 1111111 1111111 1010111 0110100 0010101 1010001 10010101 10010001 10110101 100111101 1100010 1110101 1110101 101101 11011111 1100111 1110101 10110111 10101111 11111011 11101111 11101011 11111101 11010101 11011101 10110101 00100100 11101111 11111111 1110110 10100010 10101100 10111111 11100110 111101010 10111101 01011111 1111011 1010011 1010101 100110100 1110111 01111001 10011101 1111101 10010101 0111101 1011101 01100101 1010101 0010100 1111101 11011101 01100101 1110101 001111 01010011 1011101 1010101 1011001 1110001 10100101 1011101 1010011 1010101 1110101 11010101 1000101 100111001 10011010 11101010 11111010 11100 110 10101010 10101111 11001111 110101011 10011101 1110101 1011001 0111101 1011001 10101000 1110111 11110001 1010101 1010111 11101010 10100110 10011110 10101110 1011100 1011101 1010101 1110101 1110111 0010001 1010111 1111101 1000111 1110101 0110011 1110101 1010101 1110111 0011101 10101110 11101010 1001101 1000101 11111011 1000111111 1110111 1110111 11100111 1010111 1111110 0101001 1010101 1010001 1010101 1101101 0111101 0110001 1011101 0010111 111110010 110001010 0110111 10100111 10010111 11000101 11100110 10100110 10110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 156
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, us, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, thee are repeated).
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