This is an analysis of the poem The Rival Curates that begins with:
List while the poet trolls
Of MR. CLAYTON HOOPER,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cbcb dXde fXff cdcd dbdX dgdg cXca hehe iaiX jdXd kjkX clcl dbdb kkkk ieie fhfX kXka jaja lklk hehX cacXXdgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0101010 110101 1101010 111111 1101110 111111 0101110 101101 1101010 1100101 11000110 010101 1101010 010101 0101010 010101 0101110 01001 1101110 1010001 11001010 010101 11111110 110101 0100010 110111 0101010 010111 1101010 100101 1101010 1011101 1101010 111111 1101010 1010111 1101010 1101001 1100110 110101 1101110 110111 1101010 110111 1101110 011101 11111110 010101 1111010 110101 0101010 110111 1100010 111100 1111010 1010101 1110011 110101 1101011 1011111 0101010 110111 1001010 1011011 0111011 101111 11000110 111101 0100110 111100 01001010 100111001 101110010 111101 1011010 1011101 1111111 1100101 1101111 1001111 0110010 110111 11011000 111101 01001010 011101 1100110 110101 0101010 111101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, his, him, my, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, his, a, on are repeated.
The author used the same words his, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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