This is an analysis of the poem An Address To Brantford, 1853 that begins with:
Hail, truly pleasant, fast increasing Town!
Thee I address, in rude but earnest strains.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcXadbebfbghifjbgkhbhhfXdX hhjlXbfmfjb Xifcagbfkhha bbllfh bfejbafbdhfdmXehdhXjljfcfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,11,12,6,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111011101 1101011010 11110111111 1101011101 1101011110 1110000111 1111010111 1101110101 11110011011 0101010111 1101011100 1101001101 1101111101 1101010011 00101010001 1101111111 0100011101 1101110101 1111011100 0101110111 1111110111 11110010101 1101010101 0011010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101000111 110110 0101010111 11011001001 1101110101 01110110111 111111010 1110101010 1101110101 1110101110 1001110101 0001100001 1101010101 1001110100 1011110101 1111010001 1111010101 0101011101 0100010101 1111010101 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111111111 00010010111 1111000101 0111111101 1101010001 1010111111 1111011101 1101010101 11110101001 1011101010 1010111010 0110101001 01110100111 1001011101 0101110001 0111000101 1101010101 1101000101 1111001111 0101011101 0101010100 1101011101 11001011101 1001000101 1101010011 0101011101 1101100100 1101011100 1011011101 1101010011 1011011111 1101011101 1101010001 01001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, her, thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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