This is an analysis of the poem The Blackstone Rangers that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdeef Xb gehXeehgbg gijickbjj bbjlk Xb X kijfmfX bk XXiXacmiddhXnnkX dbXXljdikfkh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,2,10,9,5,2,1,7,2,16,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111100 111 101010 1110 10010 111101 1 010 11010111 1101110 100100111 0110 0111110 0010 1010101 1101010111 1010 1100010111 11010111 001001 01001 1001101001 1101 11010100110 110101001001 10111010100 010001 0111010 0100011101 01000100101 10101011101 1010010111 1 11 0100 1111010 101 10010000101 101111001110 0101010101 1001010110 0111011100100 100 0100101 10 1001011110 11011101 1000101001 010101 1101 110101 11010101010 111101001010 0010001011010 10 10101100111 1011010111 1101010001 10111110101 11111 1010010 010100101010 01010 10010001 00101110011 010010 10101 101100101101 1101010100 01110001100 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; monstrous, save, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, they, are, save, and, will are repeated.
The author used the same words jeff, mary at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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