This is an analysis of the poem Spike Wegg that begins with:
Me photer's in the papers! 'Oly wars!
A 'ero, I've been called in big, black type.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcc XXdeff ghhgdX ihhXaa XddXjj ijjXkk gddglX iggikk gmmggX aggabb deedaa gXkgll fiifmm liillX ckkcff dbbdff gbbXgX inniff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100010101 0101010111 1110011111 1110 0111111111 1011010101 1101011111 1101110001 1101000001 1101 1101100001 1111001111 1101110111 1111010101 0111110111 1101 0111011111 1111110101 1111110111 1111111001 1110011101 1101 1111011111 1111110001 1101010110 1100111111 1111110101 0101 0101011111 1101110101 1111110011 1110110111 10110101001 1111 1010110001 0101010111 0101010101 1101110101 1101111101 1101 11010111111 11011111110 1101111111 1001010111 0111011001 1101 0111110101 1101011011 0111111101 0111010111 1001111101 1101 1111010111 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101 1111010101 1111010101 0101010101 11010010101 1111111011 1111 1111010111 1111111111 1111111111 0111111111 1111011101 0101 0011011111 1111010111 1110111101 1111110101 101011101111 1111 1111110111 01111011101 1111111001 11110100001 01110010011 1111 1110101101 11110111111 1111110101 1111110111 1111010101 1111 1111111011 1101010101 1111110101 10111010101 1010010111 1101 1100110111 0111010101 01011111001 1101010111 1111111101 1101 11011110110 0111010100 1101110101 0111000101 1111010101 1101 1101011111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; come, 'im, they, one, to, i'm, i, an', me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word spike at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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