This is an analysis of the poem The Man From Waterloo (With Kind Regards To Banjo) that begins with:
It was the Man from Waterloo,
When work in town was slack,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdedefcfAdgdghihi XjbjhkhkllllXXfA kmemnbnXncXA bgXglclA jfhfnhnh mXmXncnA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,12,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110111 11011101 110111 11110101 110101 01111101 110101 11011101 110101 11110101 010101 01011101 110101 110010101 011101 1110100 111101 11111101 011101 11010100 110111 11010101 110111 11010111 110101 01111001 111101 01010101 110111 01010111 011101 1110101 110100 11010101 010101 01011101 110101 11110101 110101 01110001 1101001 01010101 010100 01011101 111101 100101110 010101 01001101 111100 11010100 111101 11111111 110111 01111111 010101 10010101 010101 01010101 010001 11110111 11110 11010001 010101 01111101 110101 11011111 111100 11001101 111111 11011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; they, he, his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, he, i 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.
The poet repeated the same word waterloo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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