This is an analysis of the poem Damages, Two Hundred Pounds that begins with:
Special Jurymen of England! who admire your country's laws,
And proclaim a British Jury worthy of the realm's applause;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb acccc dddd eeff dddd cccc gggg gghhh bbiiii dddd Xdhdjj ccccX cchhXhhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,6,4,6,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000101011101 101010101000101 101001101010001 111110100111101 101100101010001 101010101010101 101011101000101 101110011110101 1010110001011 1 1001100011010101 111011101111101 001110101010101 111010101110101 101000101010101 111110101011111 1110001010010101 101010111110101 101110101011101 11101011010111 101010101010101 111010101010001 100011111110011 111111111110101 10101010111010001 101010101010101 111110101110101 011001111010111 1111101000110101 101010101000101 111010101010101 111010101000001 1010011101011100 1100101010100101 101010101010101 111111111101000 110101010101001010 1010001010111000010 1011011101110101 101010101011101 111011101101011 1 100111010010010 1 10110101010111 111011101010101 101000101101101 011010101110101 101010101010 111 10011000101110 1 101000100010111 101000100010101 10101010110101 111010100010101 101010101010111 111110110100110 1 111010101110101 101010101110101 1010011011101010 0010101110101010 1110001011100010 1110001000101110 111010101011101 101001101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; of, and, he, her, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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