This is an analysis of the poem The Hoary Precedent that begins with:
Mr. Pericles, M.P.,
In four-sixty-nine B.C.,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcacXbbbccXdd bXabbabb XXecceff XgXhhiaa XhaiXaaX ccjggjXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 011011 101010100010 01101011 1110001 111110100010 101010001110111 101001101110011 1010001 1001101 101111101010 1110100 1110100 001011101110 11001111010101 01010100000101 0111101 1011101 111010001010 11000111 1000111 111110011010 101110111010111 001110101110101 1111101 1110111 100111101010 1011101 0010101 111010100010 11110001111101 111010101110101 10100100 010100 101011101110 1010001 1110001 001010100110 11110100110101 11011111010111 101001 1010111 1110111010100 1110100 10011111 101110101010 111010100110111 101010100010101 1010001 1010101 101110101010 0111100 1011101 10101011010 1100110001001 11001100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, enough, i, we are repeated.
The author used the same word mr at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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