This is an analysis of the poem Old Spense that begins with:
You've seen his place, I reckon, friend?
'Twas rather kind ov tryin'.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXX dXeXaa XdXdXX XXbfXd aghXaa adddiX dXXXhh Jdbdcc ikgkll gihXgg iXdXgX XXkXmm ingnjX XXiaiX aXgfee iXXbhh bXbXeX dXaXgX Xgegmm ofgfkk Xgkgbb aXiXXX hbgbaa cbXbcn gnanbb pXdXdd adkdgX eXbnhh adqdbb eXeXdd odXdll gnbnaa efefXg aXjXii Xdgibb gXcXgg ika
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1101110 01110101 1101010 110111010 110111010 110010101 1101010 11110101 111011 11011101 01100101 01010101 0101010 11011101 0111010 11011111 111101000 11110101 1101100 01110111 1111010 11010111 11110001 10010111 0101010 01111111 11101010 11110111 11001111 11010001 1111010 01011101 1101010 01110111 111101000 11011101 0101010 01011101 1111010 11110101 01110101 11110111 1111010 11110111 0101010 11011111 11111111 11111011 1001010 11110111 0101110 10010001 11010111 11110101 1101110 11010111 1101100 01111101 11100101 11110101 0101010 11011111 0101110 11110101 1111100010 11010111 0101010 01111101 1100010 010100101 110101001 10110101 1111110 11010101 1111110 10110111 111010101 11110101 1111000 10110101 1101110 11010101 111001010 01110111 11010100 10110101 0100110 111101111 11110101 11011101 1111010 01111111 1101010 11011111 11100111 11111111 011100 11011101 11101010 1111111 11110101 10100101 0101110 11010101 10100110 11010011 11110111 1111010 0101010 11011111 0100110 101011101 1101001101 11011101 0101010 11010101 1001110 01011101 101010101 11110101 1101110 11111100 0101110 11110101 11100101 11111101 0101010 11111101 1101010 111101110 11110101 11111111 1111010 11010111 0111010 11011101 11110101 11010001 1111010 11010111 1111010 11110111 01110100 11011111 0101110 1101101 0100010 11110101 11010101 11010111 1111010 11011101 1100100 01101111 11011101 11011111 0101110 11110111 0011010 10111101 10010111 11010111 1111110 11010101 0111010 10111111 101010011 11111111 1111010 111111101 1110010 101010101 01111101 01001101 0101110 01110101 11110110 001010101 101110111 11100101 10001110 01110101 0101010 01011101 110110101 11101111 1100010 01110101 1111010 11110111 11010101 11111111 0101010 11110101 1101110 11000101 10111111 010111001 01001010 11110101 0101110 1010111001 110100101 11010001 0101010 101011101 0100110 01011101 01111101 11110111 0101010 11100101 1100110 01010101 110100101 11110101 1011010 01010101 0101110 11111111 10111101 11110101 1011010 01110101 0101010 11010110 110010101 11110111 0101010 00110101 1111010 11001101 11010001 11011101 010110 11110111 1101110 11010101 11110101 11010001 011010 11111101 11010010 11010101 11110111 11110101 1101100 11110110 0101010 11110011 111101010 01010101 1101010 11111111 1101010 11111111 11010101 0101001 0111010 01010101 0101110 11111111 11110101 10110101 1101010 11111101 0101110 11010111 01110101 01011111 1101000 01110101 1101010 01110111 11010101 11110111 1100110 11010111 1101110 11010101 01110101 11111111 1001110 11110101 1101010 11111111 101101111 11110111 0101010 11011001 1100010 11111011 11010011 01110101 0111110 011101001 0111010 10110111 11010111 100100111 1101010 11011111 1101010 01010101 01110101 110111011 0101010 01011001 0101010 1110111010 110111110 11111001 1001110 11011101 1101110 11110111 11011101 11110111 0111110 11110101 1101010 01000101 11001101 11111101 1101010 11110111 1101100 1010011 11111011 111101001 1111010 11011101 1101010 111101001 10110101 01011111 0101110 11010111 1101110 101110001 11110101 11110101 1101110 001010101 10101000 11011111 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 58
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 348
- 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; ov, tew, an', yer, it, he, es, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, an', 'yes, the, his, he are repeated.
The author used the same words i, an', old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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