This is an analysis of the poem Peter Rugg The Bostonian that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcec XafXgX hXaijX ack cdc debeef cXlfaf X edgdcX hjgjdj facXda maeaca dimici XnXnXn jhdhdh X dXoidX fXaceX dcgcdc ffcfcf fdnd gX nghgkX cclcdc X mdkddX hdcXcd dj gjhj ocdcnc dikidX dgjgfg dXpkhk gfefif dpepep delede dhahdXXkpnpcp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,3,3,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,4,2,6,6,1,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010101 010111 110101100 0010101 01010101 0010101 1011101100 1010101 01110101 1111100 11011101 101001010 101010110 101001110 1000111111 011101 11011010 1110100100 11010101 100101 110100101 010101 10110011 100101 0101010 110111 101111001 010111 1101010 1100101 01010101 110000 10010100 010101 01010111 110101 1 11110101 0100001 11010101 01001001 101110111 1111100 11110101 010111 1011110 011101 1101010 000101 0111011 010111 10010101 010100 11011100 100111 01011110 110101 11010101 111101 101010101 010101 11010111 000111 010111000 110101 01110101 110101 01111101 010001 01110110 010101 01010101 010111 0100110 010101 11110101 010101 101010101 110101 1 11111101 100100 100001101 110101 1101010 1001110 11010111 101001010 01110101 001101 01010111 10101010 10110101 011011 11011101 111101 10101100 110101 11001101 010101 10111111 010001 111001001 100101 11010010 110101 1101010 110001 10011111 110100 1111111 110101 0111010 010001 101010101 0111010 01011101 111101 0101010 111111 0101101 100101 1 01010100 110100 01010101 110101 10101010 1111110 011100101 010101 11010101 100101 11010111 010001 1101010 011101 01110010 011111 11010101 010001 01110101 010101 11111101 010101 11010101 110101 11110011 110101 01010101 010101 10110111 1011010 1111011 111001 01010001 010101 01010101 100101 1111011 011101 11110111 010101 11010100 110111 01110111 010101 01010101 110101 10011111 010101 1111110 1100111 11011100 110101 00010011 010101 01010100 010111 01110100 111001 10010101 010101 10111010 110001 11110101 110101 1100010 1101010 11010111 110101 0011011 110111 11110111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 196
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, to, night, boston are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same words the, lost at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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