This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xv: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Clelia that begins with:
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every town
Are some such sprights, who wander up and down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeeeffgghhiijjiikkhXeeaallmmeehhcceenoeellmmeehhmmaaeeiiddh deeonppddhhllllffllllllaallhhllccmmaadddcc Xeaallppi ccqqXccee X alliiqqaahhccppeelliimmrrllppaall ddllf lXlllleeeX ef lllleeaaeeaaeehhqqllqqXXmmllcciipXiillddddeece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 67,42,9,9,1,33,5,10,2,46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101001 1111110111 1101011101 0101011101 1011111101 00111101110 1101111101 1001000101 0111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101000101 1111010101 01010110111 1001011111 1101011100 1011010111 0101110100 1001110101 1111010001 1001010101 11001011101 1110111101 1001010101 0101100101 1101010111 1101010101 01010010001 0101111101 01010010101 1101011101 0111011101 1101010111 1001010101 1100011101 1101010101 10011110101 1101010101 1011110101 1101111111 1011010101 0101000101 1001011101 0101110111 0111111101 1011010101 10110101001 0111110001 1101111111 1111010101 0110111101 1101010111 1111011001 1111010111 11111100111 1101000111 1111000101 111110111 1011011101 1101010111 1111010101 1001110011 1011010010 1111000101 0101111101 01 11001110101 0111001101 0111110111 0101010111 0101001101 11001011101 01110100101 1011010101 1111010111 0111110101 111101011 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110111 0101110001 0001011101 0101110101 1111000101 0101100101 1101010011 1101010101 01110101001 0101010101 1011010101 0101110111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010001 1101100101 110010010111 1111010111 0101100101 11010101001 0101000101 1011110001 1101111101 1111010001 000101000101 11010111111 0101010101 11101111010 1101010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 1111010101 1100011111 110101011 1 1101011101 1011010001 00110011001 1011011101 01001000111 0101110101 1101000101 1101010101 1101111101 01110100101 0111010101 1101010001 1110110101 1111110111 1101010101 1101110111 1111010001 1101010101 1111010111 1101110001 0101110111 1101000111 1111010101 1110010111 1111110111 0101010001 1001100101 1011000101 1101010001 0101011101 1101010101 0100110101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010101 11001100101 1111001101 10101010101 10010110101 1101010101 1101111101 10111101010 1101011100 01001010111 0111010111 10111100101 1111111010 1 1101010101 1101111101 0111011101 1101011101 0101010111 110011100101 0101110101 0101110101 111111110 1 110111110 1 0111010101 1101111101 0101110101 11010001001 1101110101 1101111101 0101100101 01010101001 1111110101 1101110111 1101010001 1101110101 1101100101 1101011111 100111011 1001010001 1111010001 1001010001 1111000001 0011110101 1101110111 1111011111 11111110110 1101011101 1101011101 11010010101 1101010001 1101011101 10110100111 1101111101 1001010101 1111101101 01010101010 1111011111 0101011101 101010111101 0101110111 1001010111 1101001101 0101110101 0101010111 1111110101 1001010101 111101111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 228
- 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; she, her, and, all, so, he, to, in, other, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, to, the, he, and, though are repeated.
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