This is an analysis of the poem John Bunny, Motion Picture Comedian that begins with:
In which he is remembered in similitude, by reference to Yorick,
the king’s jester, who died when Hamlet and Ophelia were children.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa abXb cdbd efcf XeXeXdbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110010010001100010 0110111101010010 1001110101 0101000101 1111001101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 111101101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1101111101 0111110101 1001111111 1111001101 11001110101 1001000101 011101111 0101010111 1101010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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.
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