This is an analysis of the poem The Man Who Raised Charlestown that begins with:
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George –
The parson from his pulpit and the blacksmith from his forge; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabb Xcdd ccee bbff ccbb gghh Aaii ggjj ggeX kkeX fXeX ggii eeeX ddjj kkbb ffbb dXll XXdd eemmXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101010111111 01000101011001 101011101010111 1010101011101101 1011001010101010 111001101011001 111010101010101 101111101010100 11011010010101 01111101010101 0101110110111 111100101011001 01100101110101 110010111011111 1101011011111 11110101110101 1101110110111 0111010010001 11010101101001 111000101010001 101011111011111 0101110010101 111110101010101 001011011110111 10101010111111 1010101011100101 101010101011111 110101011010101 101110101010101 101010101010101 101110101111101 101010101110011 1110101101110101 111110101111101 10110111011110101 1110101010111110 111010101011111 011001101011111 111100101110101 10111101011111110 111010100011101 10111101010111010 1110011010111111 1010101011111110 101110101010101 101010111010101 1010101101110111 101010001001010101 111010101110011 111010101110001 11101101011101011 1110111010101010 10101111110111 1010010101010101 111010100111011 101010101011001 111000101110101 100010111010101 111010101110111 111100101111101 111110101111111 111111101110101 1010110101011111 111011101010101 111010101110111 11111010101011010 111110101011101 1010101010010101 10100010101000010110011100 101010100110111010 1011101011100101 1110101101010101 101010101010011 1110101011100101 111111101011111 1010101010100101 101010111010101 101010101110101 1110101010101010 10010101010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, from, to, men, they, in, through, his, he, their, of, as, for, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the, and, they are repeated.
The author used the same words and, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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