This is an analysis of the poem A Satisfactory Reform that begins with:
A merry burgomaster
In a burgh upon the Rhine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXacac Xdedfege hhfXfcXX XdfdXbbb Xbbbaghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 0010101 111011 11101010 10101010 1010101 10100010 1011101 10101010 0010101 00101010 0110101 10101010 0010111 111010011 1010101 11111110 10011001 11011010 0010100 11101010 1010111 11101101 1001000 11111010 1010101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1110101 11101010 1010101 10101010 0110101 10101110 1110101 11110110 0110101 10111010 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of A Satisfactory Reform;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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