This is an analysis of the poem The Highly Respectable Gondolier that begins with:
I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,
And left him, gaily prattling... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXX cdcCD acAaac cdCCD aXAaab cdCCD aeaaaeXcdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,5,6,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 1111010 00100100101 110010101 1110100100 00101010 10010111 101001110 011011001 11001001101 11001110 1111101001 1111010 1100100101 1100110101 110110001 1101110 01110101 11011110 011011001 11001001101 11001110 110010101 001001110 1100100101 1100100101 100110111 1101010 111111011 0101010 011011001 11001001101 11001110 010100101 0101010 00100100101 1100110101 110010111 00101110 10111101 1101010 011101001 11001001101 11001110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, no, doubt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines doubt is repeated).
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