This is an analysis of the poem The Philistine And The Bohemian that begins with:
She was a Philistine spick and span,
He was a bold Bohemian....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaaXddbXbbee ffgXhhiibbddddffaa ddXXddbbddhhjjkkaa ddbbllXXggjjddaajjgghhbbXbbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101111 11010100 110110111 110110101 11111111 111100111 10101111101 010110001101 1101111111 11010001110 110101101 1100101101 11111011001 01101011001 11100111 101110101 1101011111 1110101101 11100101 10010101 11100101 1010110100 10101101 10010001 1011111 110101001 100100101 10100101 11101101 10110101 11101111 10110101 111101001 1010110111 0100110111 0100100101 111001001 100100101 10100111 10010100010 10110101 111000101 110111001 10010101 10101111 10100101111 100101001 10110101 10100101 10100101 100100101 101101001 010110101 0001000100 011100111 011110100 111111111 110101101 1111100101 110100101 110010100010 110010101010 0100101111 0100100101 110100101 10011101 110101101 1100101111 1100101011 010010101 1101101101 111110111 111110101 1100111111 1110111001 100100111 11100111 10110101 1100100101 110011111 1011101001 110100100 100011101 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, his, clip, they, at, this, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, they, this are repeated.
The author used the same word home at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.
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