This is an analysis of the poem What Mr. Robinson Thinks that begins with:
Guvener B. is a sensible man;
He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababCCc dedeCCX aXafCCC XXXXCCC gXgeCCX hXhXcCc iXiXCCc fbfbCCXXbiifCCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001 11001111001 1101011111 1001111011 111 1001 111111001 1101001110 1110111111 111101111 11011011111 111 1001 11111100 10100111 11111111011 101001101001 101011011001 111 1001 111111001 1001110101 111010010111 10111100101 11011101011 111 1001 111111001 1010110110110 00110111111 111111011110 111001011001 111 1001 1011110101 01011011001 110011110110 101011111001 1010011010110 111 1001 10001101001 101011111001 11101111111 11101101100 011010111011 111 1001 101111101111 101011101001 1101011011011 11101001101 011101011101 111 1001 11101100101 10010111011 011011110 11111010110110 01011101001 111 1001 101111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; he, his, an', fer, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word parson at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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