This is an analysis of the poem The Sorrowful Fate Of Bartholomew Jones that begins with:

Bartholemew Jones made his money in mines,
And although he has left us his fame still shines... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbbcccdddeeeaaacXcffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10001101001 11111110111 101111001001 0100101101 0110101101 101001101101 111001101001 01011111011 010011001101 111111001010 11101001001 101011111001 110111001001 11011001101 11111011011 11000110101 11001101101 11001001001 100010110001 11011011001 11001011110 101011001101 11111101011 100011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 224
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, of, and are repeated.

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