This is an analysis of the poem 152. Extempore In The Court Of Session that begins with:
LORD ADVOCATEHE clenched his pamphlet in his fist,
He quoted and he hinted,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaXbab XbXbXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001010001 1101110 10010001 0100110 111111 1101101 11010111 111111 101000001011 1101011 01011101 11010011 111010010 1101011 01111111 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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