This is an analysis of the poem The Gentlemen Of Dickens that begins with:
The gentlemen of Dickens
Were mostly very poor,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbcdAd AaeXfgXg gdfdaaha XiXijkek Ajajalhl Ahchfmjm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 010101 1100010 1010001 1111110 011101 0100010 0010101 0100010 111101 1100110 0101100 1111011 111111 1101110 101101 1101110 110011 1101010 1100111 10100010 110111 1111010 010101 1111010 010111 1101010 0100111 1111010 010011 1111010 1010100 0100010 010111 1101010 111101 1100010 010001 11111101 110101 0100010 111101 1111010 110111 1111110 111101 11110100 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; of, or, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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