This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xvi: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow that begins with:
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,
A meteor shining in this sober place!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddfX XaafXccffffbbXfe fffbbgghhiiffXdaaddffbbb baaeeaaiijjkkjjllbbhhhcclleebbbbeejjhhbbbbmmXXffaannXommffjjddppeegghhlleeaaffocbbffhhffiiccccddeejjiibbbbllllaaqqbbjjffffbbbbrrccqqhhcciibbiiiiaahXbbffffffaabbf aaeebbo hXhhdXiirXiieXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,24,161,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010001101 01001000101 1101110001 11110111001 11010011101 1001000101 11110011101 0011011001 10110010101 1101001101 1001010101 110011111010 1111011101 11010000101 1011111101 011111011 1 1001010101 0101111101 01001110111 01011101100 1001010101 0101110001 1001110101 1101011101 11010010101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010111 0111010100 1111010101 1101011101 01 1101111101 1101110001 11010100001 1001110111 0101100101 1101000101 10111100111 1101010001 1101011101 1111110111 1101110101 1011010101 0101010110 11010110101 0101000111 0101010111 1101000101 11011100111 1101100111 1011110101 1101010101 1110110001 01110101001 1 1001110101 0101010101 10110101001 1101110101 1101010111 1010111101 1010110111 1101001101 11011011111 1111010111 1100110101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 11010001001 0101011101 1001010101 1101110111 11111111001 0101010101 1111010101 01011111101 11010010101 1111010101 0101011101 11010110001 1101010111 1011110111 1101000101 1111011101 0011011101 01010001010 01110101010 1101110001 0111010001 11001011001 101111000101 1101010101 01001001111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101010101 0111010111 1101111101 1111010111 0111010101 1011010101 0001011101 1111010101 10011111010 1111010101 0111010101 0101110101 1101110111 11110111001 1111111101 0111011111 11011011101 1111011101 0111010101 110100111001 1111011101 1101011101 1101011001 01111000101 1101110101 11010100101 1011110111 1101010101 1111100101 1011010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010111 10110101010 1011010101 1101000111 1111110111 1101011101 0111010011 1101100111 1011110101 11010111001 1101110001 1101010111 0101110011 1011010101 1101110101 1101101101 1101010011 1101110111 01001010011 1001001101 1111011111 1101011111 1111010101 1101111101 0101011101 1101000111 0101000101 1111010011 1001011101 110111001001 1101110101 1101010101 111101001001 1101010101 1101110101 1001010001 1101110111 1001110101 11010010001 1101100101 1101010111 0111111101 0111010101 111101100101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101111101 1110010101 1101011111 1011010001 1001010101 01001110101 1111011101 1101010101 1101000101 1111010001 1101111101 1111010101 1111111111 1101101101 1101010111 1111110111 1101011101 1101111111 1011000101 1101010011 1101010101 11010010101 1111110111 11010101110 1001110001 0101111101 1011010101 1101010101 1001010111 0001010111 1101010101 1111110101 1101101101 1001000101 1011010101 0101010101 100111001 1 1111010101 1101101111 1101110101 1111010111 0101110111 111111000 1 110110101111 1110110001 11010001001 11010111101 11010111010 0111000101 11111100101 1001010101 01010101100 0111110101 10110101001 10011111110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1471
- Average number of words per stanza: 273
- Amount of lines: 238
- 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, his, he, your, her, free, ', she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, she are repeated.
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