This is an analysis of the poem The Banker’s Secret that begins with:
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feast
The town has heard of for a year, at least;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd eeaaffggaabbhhiiffjj ffhhbbeekkhhbbddggbbbbjjllXbhhllggggggllffbbhhXmffddjjmmaabb hhddXaggbbaajXggXXffbbXiffccffbgaaddggggXf ffhhnnggbbXaaammaaddnnmm ffhhbbdXhhnnbXmmiihhffmmnnjj kkhhddffbbjjfX bbfX gghhddffiigX ffaaaannbbooggdXhhmmccbbkkhhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,60,42,24,28,14,4,12,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010001001 0111010111 0101011101 1011011101 0101010101 1001010101 0101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1101000101 01010101110 11111100110 11001010101 1011010101 1110010101 1101000101 1111010101 1011000101 0101010001 11010010001 1001010101 01110010101 0111010101 1100110101 0111010101 1011100101 10110101001 0111010111 1011011101 0111110101 01011101101 1111010101 1001001101 1101011101 1011110101 0101010101 11011101010 11010111010 1101011101 10111101001 1001110111 1011010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010001 0111010101 1111011111 0101011101 01100100101 1101010101 01011110101 1011010101 10110001101 1101110101 1111010001 0101010101 10110000101 11010010101 1111010101 01001011001 1011001101 1011010111 1111110011 1101110101 1101010111 0111011101 1111110101 01001011101 11010000101 1101001101 0111110101 1101000101 0101011001 0111011101 1101011101 0110010101 01010011100 1011010101 01110010101 1101011101 1111000101 11010101001 11101010111 1101010101 1101111101 1101010111 1101000101 1111111001 1111100111 1101011101 0111010101 11110010101 1111011111 0101010001 1001011100 1101011101 1011011111 11101011101 1101000101 0101110111 1111010101 1101110111 01010101001 11010011100 1101011101 1011010101 1101010100 1001110100 1101011011 1111110100 0100110101 1101000101 0101110101 1001110101 01010101101 01010101001 0101000101 01001010101 1111110101 01010000101 0101010101 01011101001 10101110111 11011100101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010001 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 01001110110 10110011101 00111110110 1011010101 0101010101 1101100101 10101010101 11001010101 11001110101 0101010011 1001000101 1101110111 0101111110 0001011101 01001011001 1101010001 10110101001 11010010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101000101 110110101 10010111001 0101010101 1011010111 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 11111110101 0101011101 1111111101 0111011101 1001010001 0101010101 00111010101 1101010101 1011010111 0011000101 1101100101 1001010101 0101010111 1011110101 01001010101 10011001101 1101010101 1111111101 0101010011 1101011101 01001010101 1011010101 1001010101 0101010101 1011010101 11010101101 1101010101 1001010101 0111010111 1101111101 1101110111 1101010101 1101111101 1101011101 01010101001 01010000101 01100101001 1101010101 1101010101 11010111010 0101010101 1101110101 10110101001 10010101110 11010010011 11110100011 1011000111 1101010101 1011010110 1101010101 11010111111 00110010101 11110010101 0111010101 00110100101 0101111111 11111101001 1111010101 1101111011 11011100101 0101011111 011110101 1101010111 0101010111 1101011101 01110100001 1111100101 1001000101 11010100001 1111110001 1111010101 11010001101 1111110101 1101110111 11011111001 1111110101 1110010111 11001010111 1101010101 1101110101 11010010011 0101010101 1110110101 1111111101 01100101001 0111110111 1101011101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 995
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 247
- 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; of, and, he, his, him, to, in, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, that 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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- summary of The Banker’s Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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