This is an analysis of the poem The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent that begins with:
I knew a boor - a clownish card
(His only friends were pigs and cows and... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bXbX cdcd efef ghgh dfdf ijij bfbf XhXX kXkX ieie hbhb hehX hbhX Xdid cXcX ijiX dbdX kkkkXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010101111 01000111 110011010 01011101 110101010 11011101 111101000 01110111 110101011 11010101 110101011 11011101 111101010 11010111 0100010010 11010011 011111011 11010001 011001010 11001101 010111010 01010111 111001010 11011001 111111010 10000101 010111110 11010101 010101010 11010100 010001010 10111011100 1110101010 11110101 1101110110 10000111 010101010 01111101 11111100000 11010101 010111010 10110101 110101110 11110111 111101010 11110101 010001010 11110101 011101111 11110101 1101011110 11010101 111101010 11010001 110101000 11011101 010101010 101110111 010001010 101010001 111111000 11110001 0101010100 11010101 111101010 11010101 01110010100 11000111 111100010 11110101 11010010000 1111000101 110001111 11001111 010111011 11011101 010101010 11010101 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, their, it, him, to, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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