This is an analysis of the poem The Deacon And His Daughter that begins with:
He saved his soul and saved his pork,
With old time preservation;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXX ddXdee efafbb efXfgg cbXXdX XXcXaa ffcfaa XXebbb hfbXff efiXbb bcXcjj XXgXkk cfgfcc bXibff iXfXbb kjkjee hdcddd Xfefff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 0111010 10110101 1110010 11111101 11110101 11011101 0101110 01110101 0111010 110010101 11010101 11010101 1101110 100100101 0101110 01010101 11011101 11010101 1101010 11110101 1101010 11010101 11010011 11111101 0101010 11011000 1101000 01011101 11011101 11011100 1101010 11110111 1100110 111001101 10110101 01110111 1011010 111110101 1101010 11111011 01110111 11010111 0101110 11110101 0101110 11010101 01110101 10110001 11010010 11010101 1001100 110101011 111101001 11010101 01011010 111010101 1011000 110101001 11010101 11010101 0111010 01110101 0101010 111100010 1010101010 1101111 1101010 11011101 1111010 11110111 10010101 11110101 1100110 01010101 0101010 01010101 11110101 11010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 101010101 101100101 11010101 1101010 0110101 0101110 11010001 01010101 11011101 1101110 11110101 1101010 01010101 01011101 11011111 0100010 11011101 1010010 011111001 111110101 00110101 1111010 11010101 1101010 111101110 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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; he, his, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, an', her are repeated.
The author used the same words he, i've, you'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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