This is an analysis of the poem Edwin Booth that begins with:
An old actor at the Player’s Club told me that Edwin Booth
first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcdcaac debeffe ghahaah XXggddg eeiegge gacajjX ieeeggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101111101 101010101010001010 10110010010010 01010111010 01100101 01010101 11010101 10111111 10011001 01011101 01011101 010010101 110010100 01110111 11111101 01011101 01110101 11010101 11011101 01111111 10111111 11011101 11010111 11010111 11011101 01011111 010010100 11000101 11010101 10110111 10110101 10100101 11010111 11110101 01100101 01010001 0100101001 11011101 01110101 10010101 01010111 100111001 01010101 01010101 11110011 111101100 11110111 11010111 111111001 01011101 11110101 0111001001 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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