This is an analysis of the poem The Vicar that begins with:
SOME years ago, ere time and taste
Had turn’d our parish topsy-turvy, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcaca dXdXefef cgcgfhfh fifijhjh kkklmkmk chchmgmg XlfXXjXj ekekacac nonofofo aiaXfhXh elelpcpc qXqfnbnb nXnXcXcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 111101010 11011101 111101110 01110101 110111010 11110101 110001010 11010101 110000101 101100101 111101110 11110111 010101010 11111101 1101111010 110100101 110101010 01010101 0101010010 10010111 101101110 11010101 110101110 01110101 110101110 11111101 1101001010 01010111 011111110 010100101 1101001010 01110111 010101010 01010101 010100010 01000111 0100110010 11001111 11011110 11011101 010101010 11110111 110111010 01011111 010101010 10110101 110101010 01010111 1101110010 01010101 001101000 11010110 011111110 11110110 111011010 11100101 110011010 11011111 110101110 11000101 100101010 11000101 110110010 10111101 111101010 10110101 111101110 11010111 110101010 10010101 001010110 11111101 001111010 11010101 1101010010 10010111 110110010 01010101 010111110 11110111 01011010 01110101 110111110 11010101 010111110 11010101 110101101 10010111 110111110 01010101 011101110 01010101 110101010 01110101 111101010 100101111 010001010 11011101 110101000 10011111 101101011 1101001 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, or, d, to, from, he, of, i, whose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words up, it, the, and, whose are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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