This is an analysis of the poem Dean Swift At Sir Arthur Acheson’s In The North Of Ireland that begins with:
The Dean would visit Market-Hill,
Our invitation was but slight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcbc dede fXfb ghgh hchX eaXX ihiX jeje ahah Xkck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 11010111 11111011 11111101 01011111 111101010 11111111 110111010 100101010 11010101 110100010 11011111 11010111 10110101 11111001 11110101 11111111 01010011 11110111 11110101 11111101 11100101 01000111 11111101 1111101 11110101 11110100 11010101 010111010 11011101 110100010 11111111 01010111 11111101 11011101 01011111 10111111 01011101 01011101 11111101 110100101 01000111 11111101 00010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; may, much, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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