This is an analysis of the poem A New John Bull that begins with:
A tall, slight, English gentleman,
With an eyeglass to his eye;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbabdbAefegeXe hghXXbXb afifdjcj akXkdlllXifjfaiab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100 0111001 11010101 1110101 11110101 110101 111010001 110101 01110100 110101 11010101 0010101 11111110 010001 11010110 111001 11110101 010101 10010011 110111 10011101 1011101 11110100 011101 01010100 1101001 11010100 110111 10110011 111101 11010100 010101 01010100 101111 10001001 010101 11000101 110101 11010101 010101 01011100 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 011100 11010100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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