This is an analysis of the poem The Moral Bully that begins with:
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wear
A weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeeeffbbaa ddddggeehh ddhXeXhhaadXhhff eeiibbjjdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,16,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 1001100101 1111000101 0101010111 1101010101 1011010001 0101010001 1111001101 0110000101 11010000101 01010010101 110100001001 10110011101 10011100001 110010101101 010010001111 1011111111 1111110101 1111011111 0101110001 1011010101 010100011 1101010101 0111010101 1001010101 0101011111 0101000111 0101011101 0101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010110 1011010001 0011010100 1011000101 1101010101 1011110001 11010100101 1011010101 1011010001 1011010101 11110100011 1011000101 10110101001 101110100101 1101010111 11001011001 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 1111000101 0101100111 11010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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