This is an analysis of the poem The True Sportsman that begins with:
The real ones, the right ones, the straight ones and the true,
The pukka, peerless sportsmen-their numbers are but few; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeffddcXggffeedddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011011011101 0101010110111 01111101010001 01111100010111 01111101010001 01111101010111 01010101010101 01110100010001 1100010111001 11001101011101 01011100110101 01010101111101 10011101011101 0010000110111001 101110101010011 101010101010111 101110101110111 1010010101110110 01000111011101 011101010100101 11010101111101 01010101110110 11111111111010 11110101101010 111111101011111 00110101110101 1111110110111 11101100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1748
- Average number of words per stanza: 319
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ones, men, of, and, have, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, and are repeated.
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