This is an analysis of the poem The God-Forgotten Election that begins with:
Pat M'Durmer brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten :
‘There are lively days before ye—commin Parlymint’s dissolved!’... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX eeeeXaaa fdfXbaXA ghXhaaaA XiXiaaaa bbbbXagA fbfbcacA fdfXdabA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101000101010 111010111010001 1010101010101110 101000101010101 1110101110101110 111100101010101 1010101010110010 101010101010100 101110100010101010 101010101010101 1010101010101010 101010101110100 1010111010101110 111000111110101 1010101010101010 111010101011100 110111010111010 111010101111101 1110101010111110 011010100010100 1011101011000010 101010001010001 1010101010100100 111010101011100 1111101000011110 111110101110101 1111101010101110 111110101111101 1010101010100110 111010101100101 0010001000101010 111010101011100 111101111111110 1110000101010011 1110101010101100 101010100110001 1011111011101010 11000100110111 1010111011101010 101011101011100 1010101010101010 111010101010111 1110111011101010 111001101010101 101110101110110 111010100010101 1011101111101010 111010101011100 1011101010101010 111010100010011 1110101000101110 101010101110101 10101001011101010 101010101011111 1110001010101010 111010101011100 1011101110101010 111011101110101 1110101010111010 101110100010100 1110101010101110 101011101011111 1010101011101010 111010101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, to, and, ye, yer, he, i, say, t, have, don, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word in at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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