This is an analysis of the poem He Never Hed Read It Afore that begins with:
I' ve brot back thet Testment ye lent me :
I never bed read it afore ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xa bc ac X X dX de ee e f gX gh ih i eb eb da Xa f jf ji aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 11011010 1111001111 111010011 11101111010 11010011 011011110 1110010 0101111000 111101001 0101111000 01101011 1110010010 11101111 110111110 11111101 111110010 11101001 111010100 11110001 110110110 11011011 110111010 101111101 111100110110 1111001 111010010 01001011 010111111 11101001 110111100 11011001 111110110 110111001 11110110010 01011001 11110101 11001011 11101101000 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, us, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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