This is an analysis of the poem Pg Wooster, Just As He Useter that begins with:

Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library,
Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb XXcX dd eeaX cXee Xbdd XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110101110 101100101100 1101011011 10011010101 10011110100 011010010110 111111010110 011100010110 11011110110 100111110 111011010 10011010 11101111010 11110101001 1010011110011 0100110110100 101001110 111011110110 11011001 1101011001 1011011101 0110101011 11001111110 0101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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