This is an analysis of the poem The Creditor To His Proud Debtor that begins with:
Ha, tott'ring Johny, strut and boast,
But think of what your feathers cost; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbbCcCD eeebfffbG aaabaaabG hhhbXaabCcCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,9,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 11011101 11011111 111101 10111111 01000101 01111101 011101 111101 0010111 101101 11011111 01101101 01001111 01010101 110001 11010101 11110101 101111101 010101 1111011 11111111 11010111 11111111 010101 11011111 10111101 111110111 111111 1111011 111100101 10011111 111110111 010101 111100110 11011111 101111111 011101 111101 0010111 101101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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