This is an analysis of the poem Lines On A Late Hospicious Ewent, By A Gebtleman Of The Footguards (Blue) that begins with:

I paced upon my beat
With steady step and slow,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX Xcdc aeae aXaX Xafa fgfX hXhf hghX cgcg Xiji bXbc kkXX lgdg XdkX gegX jdXd ifXX XcXX lgbg dede jgjg fgfg idid fdfd XXaX hchc gigi feXe XXdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 010111 110001001 101100 110100 011111 1010101 010101 010001 11011 11000101 010011 010101 010111 11001101 110100 111110 111101 101001101 010101 1101001 010101 101111101 0001101 1101001 1100010 1111101 101111 110101 0101001 1101001 100110 1100101 100101 01111111 010101 011010 0101001 11011101 101001 110011 0011100 1001101 010101 010111 11001 01010011 010100 1100110 010101 01010001 1110111 111010 101001 001110001 010101 010111 110111 01011011 110101 110101 010101 11110011 110101 011101 010101 100101110 110101 110101 100101 11110101 110111 010110 010101 11110111 110111 110001 111101 00101001 110111 110011 110100 10111111 010101 111011 110111 01110111 110110 110101 110101 111010101 0111101 110101 110101 11110101 010101 110100 111101 11110111 0100010 110111 010011 11110011 010011 111001 0011010 11110101 0101010 1110101 111101 111101010 0100011 101101 110110 100010101 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'that, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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