This is an analysis of the poem An April Fool Of Long Ago that begins with:
In powdered wig and buckled shoe,
Knee-breeches, coat and waistcoat gay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fgfg baXA hXhX dXdb dXdX hehX XiXX jdjd kikX gXgX blblXhahA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 11011101 01011101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010111 10010101 01111111 01100101 11110111 011100101 11010101 11011101 11110101 010100001 111101011 01010101 11101111 11010101 01010101 010111110 11010100 111111110 11010101 11010110 11100111 01111111 11011111 100111110 100100111 11001111 11110101 110110111 11011101 110111010 11110101 01110011 10111110 111101010 110010101 01111101 11111111 01010110 11111101 01000111 110110001 11111010 11011111 110111010 11111111 110101010 11011101 01010111 11110001 01101101 10011001 111101101 01111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; his, her, ', and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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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