This is an analysis of the poem A Notable Dinner that begins with:
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,
Who to lift a fallen people had a work of worth begun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddbb cccX XXaX XXaa ddbb cXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011101010001 101010101010110 101110101011101 001111101011101 101000100010111 101010101011101 101010101110101 101011101011011 1011101010101011 101110100010101 1011101010101010 1010101010101010 101000101010101 111011101010011 101111110010111 1010011010100100 101010100010110 101000100011101 101001111010101 100100101010001 100010111011101 011010100010100 101010101010101 101010101010001 101110101010001 101101100010101 101010101010001 101010101010101 101001101010001 101010101011101 001000101010111 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, to, of, his, and are 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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