This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Of The Borough. Letter Xxi: Abel Keene that begins with:
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,
He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccX aaccd eeffXbddggddddbXdXhXiiiXjjaahhggddkkggkkbbffd fddllddggddddffaallbfaaddaaccddc dmmn maaddbbggddbd bggkkaaddddmmgXccggf aaokccccgghhXdjjppd pc bbkkffcXggkkXjjjqqjjjjccddggmmddggddddf jjggcccckkaaddcXffddmmddaaccjjjjddbXcckkkkkaarriiggb nnmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,45,32,4,13,20,19,2,39,52,5,12,7,2,12,60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 1111101101 1101010101 1101110001 10110100101 11110001001 01110100101 1101111101 1011110 101 1101111001 0111010101 1101010101 111101111 1 1111011111 1101011111 1111011111 11010111001 1111010101 1101110101 1111101101 1111010101 1111110001 1111011101 1111010101 1101011101 0101110111 1001010101 111100010100 1101111001 01010101100 1111010111 10011111010 1111000101 0111000101 1101110111 1101010100 1111011111 010011111001 0101010101 010100101101 1101011101 0111010111 0111110101 1011100101 10110100101 1111011111 1101000101 1111010101 10011010111 0101110001 0101100111 1111011111 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111011111 1101111111 01 1101010101 0101110111 1101110101 11110011101 01110101101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 10110100101 10110010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101010111 1111011101 1101011101 110101101 0101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1011010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 11101011101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1111011111 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 01 1011011111 1101110111 11110101111 1 1111010101 0101010101 01010101001 0111010101 1111011101 1101011101 1101000101 1110000101 111010101001 1111011101 1000110100 111111011 1 1111011111 1101110101 11110101101 1101001001 10110101101 110010111001 1111110101 1101110101 1111001101 11011100101 1111110101 0101000101 1111010111 1111111110 1111011101 0111010111 1111000101 1111011101 11011100 01 1101010001 11111100010 1111110101 0101011101 01010111111 1101010101 1101110001 1110001101 1111111101 1111011101 0111011111 11110010110 1111011111 1111010111 1111010101 10001001101 1101111111 111111110 1001 1101011011 1 1101110101 1111110111 0101111101 1101110111 1111110101 0111000101 1111000111 1101110101 11011100001 0101110101 1111110101 1101010110 1101011101 11010100101 1101110101 1111110101 11010101001 1101011111 1101010101 11010010101 1011010101 0101110101 0101110111 1111110001 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111011001 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1011010101 1101111111 1011010111 1101111101 1101010101 0110010101 111111110 1 0111010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 0101101101 1101011111 11010010101 1111011111 1111110101 11001000101 1101011101 1111010100 1101010101 1101110111 010111011011 01011100101 1111011101 1111011101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010001 1101100101 1001010101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1111110111 1111011101 1101000101 1011011101 1101011101 01011101110 1101011111 1011110101 1111010111 1111011101 1111111101 1111110101 1111110111 0111011111 1111110111 1110001111 1101010101 1100011101 11110101111 1011010101 1011010101 111111010 1 1111010111 1111110101 0101010011 110101011 1 1101010101 1101111101 11011101010 11100110011 1110011101 1111011101 1101010101 1011010101 1101110111 111101111101 1111001010 1 1011010001 1101011101 1101010101 1111111101 0101111101 111111110 1 11111111 01 1111111101 0111111111 1101110101 0101100101 1101111111 1101110101 101010011011 1101010101 1111110101 11110111111 11001110011 1 1101111101 1111110101 1111100101 11011101001 0111010110 1111011111 1001010101 1111110110 1001110111 1001010111 1011010101 1111010111 1111110101 1111010101 1111011101 1101110101 10111100111 0101010010 1111111101 1101000111 111111001100 11111101100 1101110101 1111110101 01111011001 0101011111 1111010101 0101010101 0111010101 11110111100 1101100101 0101110101 1111011111 1101110101 0111000111 1111010111 1101111001 1101111101 01010101010 0111010110 11010001001 1001011101 010011101101 11110110100 1111010101 1011110101 1111011111 1011111001 11001010101 0101011101 10101011101 1101010101 1101011101 1001011101 1110111101 1111011101 111110111 1001010101 01010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 846
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 338
- 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; he, and, had, with, his, our, by, thy, to, my, i, they, ', thou, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, to, ere, our, his, so, now, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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