This is an analysis of the poem The Benefactors that begins with:
Ah! What avails the classic bent
And what the cultured word, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede fgfg gdgd ahah gigi jdjd bebe gkgk bibi lmlm nfnf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 110101 0101000100 1100001 110110011 111111 11000100 0111001 00110111 110111 11010111 110101 10011001 110101 01010101 110101 11110001 111111 11010111 110111 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 111100111 111111 11011111 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 1000111 10110101 011111 11010101 110101 11110101 011101 11011111 110001 110101001 0011101 01110111 110101 1101101001 111111 11010011 110101 11110100 111001 10111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words then, and 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 all connects the lines.
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