This is an analysis of the poem The New Freethinker that begins with:
John Grubby who was short and stout
And troubled with religious doubt, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddgghhiijjaaaaXkffdXllggeebkddmmkbeeddllbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11000101 01010101 010101001 110010111 01010001 11011011 11010011 100101011 11010111 11010101 11110011 11010101 10011001 01010101 11110001 10011101 01010101 100101011 10101111 01010111 11110101 11110111 11110111 01110111 10010011 100101000 01011100 11110101 11010101 011100111 11010100 10111101 11011101 11010101 01010101 11010111 110010001 01010001 11101100 111101010 011101110 11001101 100101001 10001100 01110101 11111101 01010110 01010101 01110001 11010100 11000101 10110111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1893
- Average number of words per stanza: 341
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, never are repeated.
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