This is an analysis of the poem The Aristocrat that begins with:
The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay
At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaXdd aaeeffgghhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000100111101 101011100000101 11010101011101 11011101111111 111010100111001 11110100011101 110101001110001 110100110111100 01010101110101 101000100110101 11111111111101 11111111111101 1010101001111110 010101011111110 111111101111101 11111010111101 10010101110101 101011101010111 10100011110101 1111010111101 1100110111011 101000100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, where, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Aristocrat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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