This is an analysis of the poem The Whip, Or, A Touch At The Times. Sent To Miss D. Of Linsted, With A Whip Made Of A Rhinoceros's S that begins with:
Ere modest virtue lost her way
Among the profligate and gay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbeeb ffdggd ddeffe hhdccX iieffe jjkffk ffkllk mmecXX ffXnni dXaffa jjocco ccfffX ccmffm ffkppk iiqcXq ccemme oo Xcdffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010111 1101110 01011111 11010111 1111110 11011101 11011101 1101110 1111001 01010011 0101110 11110101 10111001 11101010 11110101 110101001 0111010 01110101 111101001 1101110 11010101 01110101 1111111 110100101 11110111 10101110 0101000101 11010101 1111110 110010111 11110111 1111010 110100101 011100101 1101010 10011101 01011101 1111010 11100101 11010001 1001110 11010101 11010101 1101010 01110101 11001101 1100010 11010101 11011101 010111 11110111 01011101 110101 10010111 10010011 11110010 11111101 11010101 111101 11011101 0101001010 111101 01010111 01111101 010111 11010101 01110111 0100101 11011111 110101001 010111 11110101 01110101 110001 110111111 01111101 110101 10010101 01110101 010101 110010101 10010001 110001 11010111 100010101 11101110 11011111 110100101 0011110 11010101 01011101 1110110 01011111 100010101 01001010 11110101 11111101 1111010 11110111 11010111 10101010 11011111 11111111 11010110 11010101 0111001 10010101 100010101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, half, her, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word her at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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