This is an analysis of the poem The Judge's Song that begins with:
When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,
I'd an appetite fresh and hearty,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dbdbefeF eeeegfgX hbhbhehe XfeFgigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001 111011110 11111011001 1100010 101011001001 011111010 01001101011 101111010 011011101 101001010 11111101101 001001010 11111001110 11001110 11101001010 1001010 010101101 101011010 101100101101 1010110110 1111001011 1001011110 1110111101 0010010110 01010110101 0111010 110011111 101011010 11111101 0111010 110010101 00110010 11101111010 11001110 1111011010 1001010 0101011001 1100010 1101101001 01010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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