This is an analysis of the poem On A Cannon that begins with:

Begotten, and born, and dying with noise,
The terror of women, and pleasure of boys,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111001 01001011001 101001001001 01001011001 11011111011 11101001001 01111001101 11111001011 11001111101 11011011001 010111111010 111111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.

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