This is an analysis of the poem Robert Southey Burke that begins with:

I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor
A. D. Blood....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdedbeXcXaXXebcceXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010001110 011 11011010011 10011011011 1010110100 100100011 10100110100 1111101 1110101 010100101 0101001 11000110 11111110 11111 11101 11111001 1110101 110011111 110111101 111011101 1110101001 010101101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, you, and, your, i, hated are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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