This is an analysis of the poem A Code Of Morals that begins with:

Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order,
And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccDd eedd ffbb ccXX ggXX Ddhh ggbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101110101010 1101001010101110 0110100100111111 010100011101011 11111101110101 11010101110001 11010101110101 110010111010100 11010101010111 11110100010001 11010101010101 11011000101001 1100101111100101 11100100100011 11010101010111 11010101100111 10111111110101001 1010100100011101 1010111110110101 10001110010111000 01010111010101 11011111110001 11110101010101 10111010010101010 11010101110101 1100101011111 010001111100001 110000100100101 01010111010101 111101010100101 10011111010101 1011101011101110 11010111010101 1111010111110 1010100110100100 11010100110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, her, and, they, dot, dash, ', 'my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, and are repeated.

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