This is an analysis of the poem A Summary History Of Lord Clive that begins with:
About a hundred and fifty years ago,
History relates it happened so,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bcdd ddaa cbee ffee ddbb gghh iiii bbjj ddhh bbbb bbdd cbdd XXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010110001 100010101 0111001010 11100010101 110001000111 1110110111 110110101 1110011101 0101001010110101 110011111101 1101011010101 01011100101 1111110110101 011111111 1111011010001 1110111111101 11101010011111 1100010010101101101 010101110101 111011101001 111100101100101011 0101111011 1010101111111001 111101010010101 111011010101 111000101100001 11101010010 1011101110 1111110101001 1101100010111101 1110101100 11110011101 11101010 0101010101 11101110001 011110110100 1101010001 01011101 1111010010111111 100100010011001 11011111011 1110111111001 1010110001111101 111101001110001011 101001101010001 0101010010101001010001 1101010101 1101010010001 1011101111111 010101010010110101 101111110011 101010001101 11011001010010 1101011111 110010111001 10100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, he, in, them, for, him, his, when, they, to, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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