This is an analysis of the poem Jones's Porvate Argyment that begins with:

That air same Jones, which lived in Jones,
He had this pint about him:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab XcddX efeeX gXggX hXhhf bXbbX eceXc iXiiX ejeej ifiiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111101 1101011 110010111 11011101 1101010 1101000011 1101010 11001101 01011111 10100010 101011101 0111110 111100111 11111111 0101010 11011111 11110100 111101001 10010111 11001100 11110101 010111 11011101 10011111 1111110 11010111 1101010 11111001 01110101 1111010 11110001 0100010 011101001 11110110 0100010 01110101 0111010 10010101 11111101 1101010 110011101 1101010 11110111 01010101 1001010 101111111 1101110 111101001 11001101001 10111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 the is repeated.

    The author used the same words that, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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