This is an analysis of the poem The College Colonel that begins with:
He rides at their head;
A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXaeeXe Xbffb fcgX gagaXgdgddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,5,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 0110101101 1110111 1110111101 1101001 11111001 101011011011 11011011 10111 11111111 01101101 1111101 01010011 1100010101 1110100 01010111 101101 11100111 1111001 1011001101 1011111 00110101 00111101 001101011 1111101 11101011 11001001 10011101 11001011 11001011 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, it, not, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The College Colonel;
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