This is an analysis of the poem A Colonial that begins with:
Only a Colonial!
Only a man of nerve and heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbXcc AbXbdee Afgfgcc Abgbgaa Ahihigg Ajdjdbb Akekejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100 10010111 11101001110 100111101 0011110101 10010111 1010100101 1000100 100111101 1101001000 100110101 11111111 1110100101 11011101 1000100 100111101 11010101 111100111 11010101 101011111 1110100101 1000100 0100111101 010010111 0100100101 011110101 1111111101 0110111101 1000100 110100101 011100111 11111000111 101110101 11101111111 1101100111 1000100 1110111101 111110111 111110111 01010011 110100101 110100101 1000100 01010111 01010111 11010101 11001100 01001100 110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; only, of, that, ye, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word only is repeated.
The author used the same word only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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