This is an analysis of the poem You Can Be A Republican, I'M A Genocrat that begins with:
Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word
Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly,"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXb Xaaabb cdedbX cfcfgg chehdd eiXijj XXcXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010101001 111010100 1100101100 0101010 1101011010 000101010 11111100 110011 010001001 11001001 1110101110 000101010 01010101 1101010 11010111 001001010 1000101010 0111000100 010010101 1111000 100110101 11111 10001011011 01010110111 110111001 11010011 1110110101 0011111 1000100100100 1001010100 111100101 1101011 101100111 110001 1100101010 01111111010 0100010101 0101010 01011111 11010110 110101110 1100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines for is repeated).
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