This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xiv: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney that begins with:
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a look
Of shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeccffeegXbbhhiijjkkffeeddllddddhhfX fbbm nnddbbhhffooggffmmmmhhbbffXmffeebbppffoooeeqqddfX fffooXpggcceecceeeeddffeeiieeggffffrrcccXffgm gccddppccbbbbXXhhm heeaaddccmmffmmhXffhXmmffmmeerriillffeecXeehhhhddhhaae ffcceXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,4,49,45,18,54,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01111100101 0111110111 10011110001 10110011101 1101110111 1101110101 1111011101 0101010101 1011010111 0101111111 1011110101 0111010101 1001011101 1101110101 1001011111 1101000101 10011010101 1011111011 1111011101 00110100010 11010100101 0101000101 1101000101 0111010111 0101000101 1011111101 0101110101 1101110101 1011101101 1100010101 1001010101 0111110111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1111111101 1111111111 1101111111 1111010110 1111010101 1111111111 1101111101 1111110101 1111010101 0111010101 11011111010 1 1101111101 0101010101 1101111100 1 0111000101 1101110101 1101000101 01011101001 10111101001 0101010101 1111111101 1111010111 1101110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111011101 0101110111 0101011101 1111010101 1101111101 11010111001 1001110101 11010100001 0111010101 01010010101 1101000101 1111001101 1011010101 1011011101 10110001010 1111010001 1111010111 1101110111 1001101111 1111011001 1101010111 10001110101 1111100101 1011010101 1100111001010 11010101010 0101110101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 11010100101 1101110111 1101001111 1111110011 1111010100 1111111101 111111010 1 1111010101 1101010101 1111110001 11010101001 1101010111 0101110001 1111011111 1011110111 0101011101 0101010101 1111110111 11010010101 1011010001 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1101111101 1011110111 1101011111 1101010101 10110100101 0111110111 1111010111 1110010101 1101010101 10010011101 1101010101 1011010001 1111110101 1011010111 1111110101 0101011111 1111111101 0101000101 1111010101 0101000101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 11101100100 1111010101 1111111111 1101010101 11111101 01 1101010101 0101010101 0111011111 0101010101 0101010101 01001010111 0001010101 11010010101 0101010101 0101010111 0001010101 1001000101 11010100111 1101010101 1110010101 1111001101 11010111010 1 0101111101 1001110101 1101010101 1111111101 1101110111 11110010101 11010100111 11010100101 1001011101 0101110001 01010110001 1001110001 1001010111 110101111 1001010001 1001010101 1011010101 11010101001 1101010101 0101010100 11001001001 0101010101 11001111101 1101010101 1011001101 1101100101 110100101001 0101010101 1000111101 1101010101 10110101101 1101110101 1101011101 1001010001 0101000101 1101010101 11011100101 1111110101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 11010000101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110111 0101100100 11110100101 0111000101 1101110101 0101110101 0101011111 1101110111 0111011100 1 1111010101 1001001101 1111011101 0111110101 1101010011 1111110101 1011000111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1366
- Average number of words per stanza: 253
- Amount of lines: 224
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, to, without, not, he, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, how, to, thus are repeated.
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