This is an analysis of the poem The Foot of Tucksport that begins with:
Colonel Jonathan Jethro Tuck
Was a gold-lace man,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded afef gbhb eibi hjbj bheh hklk hmnm nhcX hgog mcpc beqe nkek eqeq gbgb ekqX pheh rgag pbhX ohsh rebe hpkp hbqb bbbb edtX pici ehoh shih gclX erqX hhgX anqX hepX oXbX ktpX Xpdp qhhh qtXt pchX bdkd hqeq bXhX tbsb qqiq qgeg brbr hgpg atnt cuhu ipep
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 10111 1110101 010101 11010100 0101010 01011101 1100010 01010101 101110 01010101 101110 11011101 11101 01010101 10101 01010101 10101 01001100 100111 01110101 010101 01011101 110111 11110101 010101 01010101 010111 1110111 010111 01110001 110001 1110101 0101110 1110101 1101010 01110101 010101 1011101 101001 010111001 101101 11110111 010111 1111011 11010 1110101 11101 01010101 010111 11010001 010111 1010101 10111 11011001 110111 010010101 011101 01100100 011101 1010101 100101 0010101 010100 0110001 110001 1010101 011100 01110101 010001 1011101 010101 1110101 1111001 0010101 011001 1110101 100011 01010111 110100 1110111 11001001 01010101 1100101 11010101 010101 1011101 011101 11110101 110101 11010101 00101 01010101 110111 11000101 11101 11010111 110100 1011101 010101 11010111 0101110 10110101 100100 1101111 10111 11011101 010101 10010101 10101 1011101 00101 11010101 010101 1010101 00111 11010101 0101010 1111111 0100010 01011101 110100 1010111 10101 01011111 111101 01010111 110111 11011101 10101 0110101 10111 11010101 11101 1011111 110111 11010111 110101 01011101 011101 1010111 110101 11110111 110111 11010111 110101 11110100 110001 01011101 100111 1011101 010101 1110101 111001 11011100 00101 11010111 110101 11010101 110111 11010101 0101010 1011101 1101110 01010111 111101 11110111 110100 11010011 110101 11100101 101100 1111101 111101 01010001 110101 01011111 110101 1010101 11001 11010011 110001 11110101 010111 01001101 10111 1110111 110101 1010101 010111 110010001 010111 11111001 01101 11111101 11101 11111001 111011 01110111 11111 11110011 110111 11110111 111101 11111111 100011 1010111 011101 11110100 10101 1111101 111011 11010100 101010 01111100 1110010 1110101 11001110 01010111 1111010 01010101 0101010 1110101 1001110 01010111 10101 1010111 010011 01110101 010101 10010101 00101 1110001 110101 011011101 110101 11011001 111101 01100111 010011 1011101 110111 11111101 010111 1011101 010101 11111101 010101 01010101 010101 01010011 110001 1011001 00101 1010111 10101 01010101 011111 10010101 0100111 1010101 10101 010000111 111101 11111100 1111110 0011101 100110 11010100 010101 01010100 011101 0110101 110101 010010101 110101 10010101 110001 10111010 110001 010010101 011101 1010011 10101 11010111 010101 01010101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 72
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 288
- 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; she, her, his, sat, ', and, they, thy, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, his, and, hands, they, i are repeated.
The author used the same words the, a, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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