This is an analysis of the poem Lines To A Don that begins with:
Remote and ineffectual Don
That dared attack my Chesterton,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbaaccdXeefXffbbbb ddccaaddggggbbaadd dbbhhiijjccddkkggaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,18,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101001 11011100 01110101 10010101 01010101 110010101 111111110 111111000 110010101 11010100 110011010 110111010 111111010 111101100 110111010 111101010 11010011 11011101 11011111 11110011 110001101 01011101 11111111 01010101 11010101 01010101 10010011 11100101 11000101 01011101 10010111 11110001 11010001 11011101 010100101 01110001 001001100 11110001 11010101 111111010 101101010 010111001 10110101 110101110 010111110 10011101 10100101 110101010 110111010 11011101 10010111 01100001 0100101 01011101 11010101 01111101 110111111 01110101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; don, and, of, dons, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words don, dons are repeated.
The author used the same word don at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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