This is an analysis of the poem John Burns Of Gettysburg that begins with:
Have you heard the story that gossips tell
Of Burns of Gettysburg?—No? Ah, well, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccddddXeeffgcXgeeeebbbbbcXggdd gghhbbggbbfffccccgg bbggggiiXggccjj dXdccffffXXbbbkkgg ggeeccXXffffff ggccbbXbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,19,15,18,14,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101 010100111 100101101 100100111 110101101 010111011 1010110101 110100111 11011101 11001101 010111001 10010100 10110101 0010110101 111110101 11110101 1010101 100100101 110100101 11110011 111110111 011101101 0111101001 00011111 111100101 010100101 111100111 0100100111 110100101 10111101 110011111 111011001 10101101 110101111 1111111001 101100101 11100101 100100101 100101101 11011101 10110101 11110101 10010101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1110001 01010111 01111101 01010001 01010101 01010111 11011111 01110011 11010101 011101111 11110111 11110111 10110101 110100101 10111001010 1111010010 0110101110 11011111 11011101 10110101 110010101 111110101 110010101 11011111 100000100 10110101 110100111 11011100 111110111 110100111 111011101 010010101 11111101 111011011 11101101 0100101101 1110101111 111000111 11100101 0011101111 1010110101 110101101 111101101 1100101101 10011111 1010110101 0011100111 011111111 1010101111 0001101111 0100100101 110010101 1010011101 1010100101 111110001 110101101 1010101101 11010111 111101001 100101001 111100111 100100111 000100101 01001001010 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, ', and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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