This is an analysis of the poem Book Agent Story that begins with:
As we have given several humorous Scottish stories in verse we will venture to
trespass on your good nature by giving an American specimen. The...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd eeffgghhiicc jjbbkkbblccc bbmmbbeekkcc hheeXebbddcc nnllhhbbaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010010010100110100 1111010110101001000101 0010011010111110111 010011110010110001 100111001101 10010101 11000101 111100010 00101010 01011111 11111111 11010101 11010101 111111001 11010001 111101010 110101010 01010111 11010001 10111111 11010101 01000101 1110001 110010101 1101101 0111101 01001010 01010110 11111010 11010111 01010001 01111101 11000101 11101111 01011101 11100101 10100101 11111101 1111001 11111110 111010110 11010111 100101101 11010101 11011101 1111000110 11101011 11101110 0011001 1111101 11010101 111101010 01111010 01111011 11011111 11010101 1111101 11100101 11111101 11011111 11011111 101111101 11100101 111111010 11100110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, in, her, she, he, him, book are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word martyr at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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