This is an analysis of the poem At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One that begins with:
An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,
His stock-in-trade unfurled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac bdbd efef eaeX gbgb hfhf ijij kbkb bjbj jljl acac jfjf Xmem XdXd ejejXkeke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010101 001100101 00100101 11011101 110101 0101100101 100111 01010101 0101001 110101001 1010101 01010101 010111 011010101 1001001 111010101 110101 011101100 010010000 01010111 110111 11110101 011101 01010111 011101 110101011 111111 010110101 10100101 111010101 110101 010110101 111101 110100101 111111 110100111 01011001 11011101 110101 01110111 110101 111100101 111101 11110101 110101 111100101 111111 01011101 110111 11010101 111101 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 110011000 010111 110011111 0100100 1111111 110101 11110100 111111 11110111 110111 110011101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, often are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, time, the, and, they, they've are repeated.
The author used the same words the, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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