This is an analysis of the poem Polonius And The Ballad Singers that begins with:
A gaunt built woman and her son-in-law—
A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as shows ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXdaefgcabXeahaaXiihjjklcallaflcfabdhlXbmaMLMnlaleiaILIXlXdhkihnfdjhhhobbXhjjjheeejoggaXbbdaiblal
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 101,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101 0111001111 1011010101 0101011101 10011111111 1100010101 1101011101 11010 1101011101 1101110111 110101011 11110111111 10110001110 1111110111 11011 011111 1010111 10111110111 110101 0011111 1011010100 1111101 111101 1101011101 1111100 1110111 10101011111 110101 1110101 11111010011 1011011 1110101 0101011001 1111 0101011101 1001110101 11001111101 0111111111 110101 11111111 110111 11111101 110001 11111101 111101 11111101 110101 11 110101 11110101 0010111 11101101 110011 11111101 110111 11101101 010111 11 010111 0111 1011000101 100101010 1101111111 1101111111 01110110111 0010111101000 10110010001 1101110101 111001101001 01011110111 010111 01111011001 11111101001 001001101001 1010110010 101111001001 101101101001 10101111001 1111011110 0111111001 101101011111 1011110101101 110011111 1101011111101 101001101011 101101101101 11001001 11011101100 101011101001 01101111101 011101011 01101001111 11011111111 11111111001 111010101 101100111 110110 1011111101 10011 010110101001 0101101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4005
- Average number of words per stanza: 796
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; by, you, i, ll, s, it, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, such, and, the, will are repeated.
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