This is an analysis of the poem Lone Gentleman that begins with:
The gay young men and the love-sick girls,
and the abandoned widows suffering in sleepless delirium, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaccdae acXfaga dhXcffc cicggaehbcXaihXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,7,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110111 10010101000100100 10110101010 10101111100011 101001101001 01110100 1100110111 101000111 1011110010 0100101010 001001010100 101110111010 10010010111010101 111010010110 01001101001 110111011 0100101001 10011011011101 101000010111 1100010011101 1010111101010 110110011 0011101110101 0100101110101 10101011101 1010101101110 101110101101 101010011 101101101101 111110110010 11010101011010 101010010010100101 0101010110 1010001001111010 11111111010 10001000101 000101010110 0010101101 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, like, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, like are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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