This is an analysis of the poem The Family Fool that begins with:
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdaeAefegA hXgbiiXicXcXX fjkjaflXddddf XjljkedeimimeXkjcjgfhficicf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001001101 0110010010 01001111011 1110011010 111111101101 1110010010 111111111001 1010111010 111111 101010 111001 011001 1010111010 011001101011 00101101000 101111111001 1101101100 11101111011 0110011010 11011101001 1111110010 111011 111101 101111 1010110 11111101100 0110010010110 110110010 101011001001 1011110110 10101101101 1110110110 11111011001 101111100100 01001 001001 111001 001101 0111110010 10101010101 1010010010 101101111001 1110110010 001111111011 1110110110 11011001001 1010110110 001001 111011 001001 101111 1010110010 1110110010001 1110010110 111011111111 0110011010 111101001011 1100110010 111111101001 1111111110 001001 011011 111001 111001 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you, his, you're, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Family Fool;
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