This is an analysis of the poem The Moralist that begins with:
Three other soldier blokes 'n' me packed
'ome from foreign lands; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcbcaaXa dedebfgfhhiX jcXcdkXkXcXc XdXdjhiXblXhl XmXmdnknlliX gXXXhXbhddhd gigigdidiiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,13,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111 10101 1001010101000 1 110111011 11111 11110101111 101 11110101 11010111 01011101110 0100 11110101111 101 1101010111001 11 11010100110 101 1111011010 10101 11110111 11010101 01010101101 101 11101101010 111 10101010101 1101 001111010101 01 01110101011 101 01010101 11010001 010101010110 1 01010100010 101 111101011 10101 11110100010 101 01010100011 101 1111111 1 11110001 1101010111 1101 0100010111 0101 11110100110 101 11110101110 111 111111001 1001 11111101 11110101 11011111111 101 111110101000 1 1101111110 001 1101110111 1100 110101001101 01 11010101 11010101 110101000101 01 11110101100 101 110111010 10110 1101010111000 1 11011111011 101 11110111 11000110 1101000110 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 85
- 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; 'n', short 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.
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- summary of The Moralist;
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