This is an analysis of the poem The Bridge Across The Crick that begins with:

Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking
Strove in an election fight;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbacc dedefX cgcdcc XhbhfX eeeeaa baXXcc XAbacc igidee hghdfX bXbXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 1010101 11101010 1010101 101111111010101 111111111010101 10101010 1110101 10111010 1010101 10010111110101101 111010101010101 10101010 1110110 11101010 1100100 101100101010101 101010111010101 11111010 1010001 111110010 10111001 101010101100101 111110100010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1110101 111010101111111 1010101010110100 10101110 1111001 11101110 1010111 0011100101110101 100110100111111 10111010 1010101 11111010 1010101 111000101010111 101010111010101 10111010 1110101 10111010 1010100 101010101110101 001110100010001 10101010 1110001 10111010 1011100 101100101011111 101110100110101 10101010 1010100 10101010 1011110 1110101001110011 101110111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; he is repeated.

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

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

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