This is an analysis of the poem Flirt And Phil that begins with:
A wit, by learning well refined,
A beau, but of the rural kind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbc ddeaae ffcggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 01100101 01001100 11011101 111100101 0100010 11010101 10110001 1101011 11101010 0111111010 1101011 100111101 01010101 010101 01011101 11010001 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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