This is an analysis of the poem My Sort O' Man that begins with:
I don't believe in 'ristercrats
An' never did, you see;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacded fgbghhbh bebeaaXa ijkXikfk XchcfkXk lacadlgl bghgfjcj abibXXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010100 110011 01111101 000111 111101001 001101 11111111 111101 11010011 010101 11001101 110101 11011111 110001 11011011 1110111 11010111 011001 11010101 1101001 11111101 111111 11111100 110111 11111101 110011 01110101 100101 11111101 110101 01110111 010001 11010100 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 110111 11111101 110111 01011111 1101101 01011011 110111 11010111 111101 11110111 111101 01110111 100101 11011111 011101 10110101 1100101 111011111 111101 01010011 010101 01110101 011100 01001101 110110 1101111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, an', in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, fur, to 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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