This is an analysis of the poem Albert Schirding that begins with:

Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
Because his children were all failures....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbbdXeabcXXed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 101101011 010100110 11100111011 000001011101010 11101010 110111101 01100101 1000100101000011 11011101010 111101001001 101010100111 111100111010 10100101110 0100101011010101 01011111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 685
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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