This is an analysis of the poem The True Born Englishman (Excerpt) that begins with:
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Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaabbaa Xeff ggXbhhbbggaahhcc ggaaaaffii gggg bbjj Xekk X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,14,4,16,10,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001101 1100011100 01011100101 0101010101 11010110101 1111000101 0101011111 0101110111 0111110101 0101010101 1111001101 01110001001 0101010001 0101010110 11010000100 0100010001 0101010101 1101010100 0101010101 0101010011 1101000110 1101010101 1111010101 01001110001 0111010101 1001010111 1101011101 0101110001 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1100010111 1100010111 11010111101 0101010111 0101111101 11100101010 10110110010 01110001010 01110001010 0101000101 1111010101 0100010001 0101010101 110111111 0101110111 1101010101 1101000101 1101011101 0101010101 110110101 1011010101 1111010100 111101011101 1111000101 1110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , the, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- idea of the verse;
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