This is an analysis of the poem The Village Of Tayport And Its Surroundings that begins with:

All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be,
I pray ye all be advised by me,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbbb bbaa ccdd aaee aXbf gghh aabb aagg iiaa hhaa fbhh jjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101010010 111100111 111010101101 11111010101 0101001010100001 101101111011 101011101 110001010001101 1010010110001 1110111101 1010101111 11001001101001 100110101101 1111100010001 11111011101 1010101001011 0101111010001 1010101101001 111010011 110110101110101 10110010001 001001101110 1011100100101 1010001000101 010110001010101 10010111110 101010101001010 1101010101010010 1100101111 100100101 0101011001 11110011 110001001101 0010010101101 1101101 000111100 11110101011 01101110101 1101011001 101111111 1110101010001 101010001 1110101101 110101101101 1100101000100101 110010010101 1010100011 10010110011 11010100110 11101110110 10010010011001 010101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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