This is an analysis of the poem Peter The Wag that begins with:
POLICEMAN PETER FORTH I drag
From his obscure retreat:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX eeeefcfc ddddgbgb hhhhhhhh dgdgdidi cgcjkhkh hgXjicic lmlmdcdc hXhXdhXX cdbXmbmh bibibhbh Xmmmbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 000101 11010101 110101 01010101 110101 11100011 10101100 01011101 0100101 01011001 111111 01010101 110111 11011101 111101 11010101 110101 11011101 110011 11010111 110001 11110101 111101 11110001 110001 10010111 010101 01010101 010101 01010101 110101 01010001 010101 01000101 010001 110010101 1101001 01011101 101101 11010101 110101 11110101 110110 01011101 010101 10010001 111101 01010101 110111 110101010 010010 011100010 1101001 01010101 11001 11110111 110101 11011101 100101 11010111 110101 01011111 110011 11111111 111101 1011011011 1100010 11000101 110101 0101010100 01101000 01110101 11000011 01111110 010000 010111001 110101 01010101 110101 11010101 011101 01011100 110111 01010101 110101 111110101 010101 10011111 111101 01010101 010011 01011101 111111 11110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, their, would, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, from, the, their are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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