This is an analysis of the poem The Distracted Puritan that begins with:
Am I mad, O noble Festus,
When zeal and godly knowledge... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbXXDX efggfXXDX hgiigXXDX jXfffXXDX akffkXXDX kfllfXXDX mjnnXXXDX efoofXXDX fhiihXXDX gfggXXXDX fjmmjXXDX cfaafXXDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1111010 11101 01001 111010010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 001010100 1111010 11101 110011 00101010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 1111010 1111110 10101 1111 00101010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 1100110 1100100 1101 10111 10111010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 00111111 11111010 011101 1111 11111110 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 1110101010 1101110 11101 001001 111110011 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 001001110 1110010 10101 1101 1111100 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 11101010 00101010 1101 1101 001001010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 11110010 00101010 110001 11001 10111010 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 10101010 0110010 1101 11011 11111000 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 00101010 1111010 11111 01101 11101110 101111011010 101110 11111101 1111010 101010110 1101010 11111 111001 111001010 10111011010 101110 11111101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, with, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word crotchets at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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