This is an analysis of the poem Queer Ebenezer that begins with:
The strangest man I ever knew
Is Ebenezer Pettigrew; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbccddXXeXffgghhddgX ggddaaccbbbXe XgXhhdddXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,13,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01010100 10111111 01011011 11111001 11110011 11111101 11001101 11111111 11111100 11110111 11010101 01110101 01110111 11111111 11110001 11001101 11101101 01010101 11010101 11111111 11111100 11110101 100111010 11010101 11001101 11111111 11100101 11011111 11111111 01010111 11111011 01010111 11010101 11010101 01010101 11001011 10011110 11011111 11011111 11110001 11010101 11110111 11110101 1110111 0111100 11111111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; an', his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', the, thet are repeated.
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