This is an analysis of the poem To C. L. Esq. With A Present Of A Large Bottle Of Old Jamaica Rum that begins with:

Dear honest hearted, canty Charlie!
To whom I'd trust baith late and earlie;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXXXeXffaXccXa ddXcccgghhiiXXXddcXXf XXaXeejjXXddffXXhkee fXaaiXdccckkeecXXchhXeXXXXkk XaXXkkccXcbbXXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,21,20,28,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 011111110 01010101 11011111 010111110 111101010 111101110 110111110 11011111 11110111 1011111000 0101110000 11011010100 111101100 111111110 110111010 1100111010 111111010 110111110 111101110 111111110 111101010 1100101110 111111110 111001110 11110111 111101111 110101010 1111100010 110111110 111111010 011111110 111111011 1100111011 110111110 110101110 111111010 110101010 111101110 111111111 110101010 110111100 1101111110 110111110 111101100 011101010 111101010 111101010 1101111110 11011001 01111111 110111110 011101010 111111010 1101011110 1101010110 010111010 1111010011 1101001010 011111110 110111011 10111101 111101010 111101010 10110111 011111110 110111010 11001101 1101111 110101110 1100111010 110100111 00111101 11111101 01111101 11010111 011101001 11111101 101111001 101100110 01010101 111101110 110111110 11011111 1101010010 110111011 011111110 11011111 11111111 11010101100 0111111100 111111110 111101010 111111110 111110010 010111010 1100111010 010111010 11111010 110111010 111111011 11111101 11011111 110111010 111101110 111101010 11101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 107
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, sic, you, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wi', and, i, sic are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, you, ' are repeated).

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