This is an analysis of the poem The Bore that begins with:
Ah, prithee friend, if thou has ought
Of love and kind regard for me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcB dXXb dbaX ebXb fbfb gbgX hXeb XXhb XbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110111 01110111 11110101 11001101 11110011 1110100 11111101 01110111 11010111 11110111 11010101 0101010 10010101 01011101 01010111 11011001 10010101 11111111 10011001 11110101 11111101 11110110 11110101 1101010 1111111 1111110 11111100 10010001 100101010 0101011 11010111 11100111 1110111 11011111 11110101 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, he, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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