This is an analysis of the poem Address To Beelzebub that begins with:
LONG life, my Lord, an' health be yours,
Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbaaeXffgghhiiajeekkff hhXXaXXdXahbXXjXXjXXllmmiidXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,24,32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1001100101 1111110010 111111010 11110101 11110101 11110001 01010101 111111110 110111010 11011111 11111111 110101010 111101010 110001110 110101010 111110010 111111010 110101110 10010101 111111011 0110110011 110111110 010001010 010101010 110101010 110111111 01111111 110101110 111101010 11111101 11110011 110111110 110111110 110111010 110100010 111101110 111101010 11010101 11010101 011100011 111101010 010011010 1001010100 10011101 11011111 10111111 10011111 1101001010 010101010 11010101 11110111 111111011 101111011 110111010 010101010 11110111 11011100 101111010 011001010 010111100 1111110100000110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 791
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, or, them, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, you are repeated).
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- summary of Address To Beelzebub;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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