This is an analysis of the poem The Fortunes Of Grandison Lee that begins with:
Now Percival Gregory Grandison-Lee
He came of a fine old stock.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXabccadda aeaaeffgbba XhaXhggXXXa XgaXgXXXiiX ajXXjggXeeX XjaajiiXbXX AhXahkkXeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001001 1100111 010111001 1100100100 0111111 01001 11101 101001011 10101 00101 01001011 1100100101 0100101 1110011011 01001001011 11001001 10111 11101 1110010011 11001 001001 11001001 110010011 1100101 11001001001 1110100111 0101101 1111 10101 11100010 11101 10111 001011001 111110110 1010101 010100111 1110010010 1100101 11111 10101 1010011 0101 10101 101001 011001011001 01001001 1100101101 11010101 01011001 0101 10111 1011010 101001 01001 1101000 110010011 00100101 11011011011 110001011011 1110111 11101 00101 100100 001011 101110 1110110 11001001001 0010111 111011010 1101100101 1110101 111001 10111 10100100 110110 110010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; he, of, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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