This is an analysis of the poem On A Fork Of Byron's that begins with:
Like any other fork.—No mark you meet with
To point some psychological conceit with.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccc dddeee fff Xgg hhh iii bbb jjj kk k fff jjj XXX ddXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110 01110100010 11010101010 10100100010 11010111010 11000101100 11010101110 01010100010 11000101010 01110111000 10010100010 1100101010 01110101010 11010101010 11110101010 110011101011 11010101011 01010111111 11011001100 01101101010 11011111010 11011101010 10011001010 01111101010 11010100100 01011100010 11000101010 01010101010 00111101010 01000101010 01010111010 11000101010 11110111011 10010100010 11010101010 100111011011 01010111010 1101000010 01001101010 110111010101 011100000101 100101110001 11011101000 01000101100 11011101010 01010101010 01111101010 11010101000 100010011010 00110111010 100010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, fork, no, it, as, of, that, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same words no, perchance 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 with, it, is, to, be, you are repeated).
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