This is an analysis of Telemachus Versus Mentor by Francis Bret Harte.

Don't mind me, I beg you, old fellow,--I'll do very well here alone;
You must not be kept from your 'German' because I've dropped in like…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcc defeghXh ibjbgaaa keleaa mgbgXaa bfjjfj XXjmnn kooblX mbXbplal aanili pkikqkk qbqfXdk
  • Stanza lengths: 6,8,8,6,7,6,6,6,8,6,7,7,
  • Metre: 11111111011101101 111010110011101 01 111010011111011 10 110110010101001101 1111010110111011 101 11110100101100100 1 11111111111001 011 110101110110010 11 1101101101100101 1 11011011011011 101 110110011110110 11 1111110010111110 11 11101101111101 101 0110110100110111 1 11111111001101011 01001010101001011 1110100111010 01101 111011010001111 111 11111101000110100 1 101011011001001011 01100100110100100 110110100100100 1001 0110100101111001 1011110111101100 1 11111001111001 1000 111101001111010011 11101110110100 1111 1100101111001001 111111001010110 01 0100100111010001 11111101011001101 001101001010001 100 1111010110111010 01 1011110111010110 1 10110100101110110 11 1011011110111010 11 11111111001101011 101011101001101011 111011010110010 01 011011010110111 01 111111101010110 11 110111111110101 1 111111010011001000 1 1100100101011001 11011011001111001 101111111111011 111 101111111011100 1001 111110010010010 01
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 81

Repeated words/phrases

you, and, i, my, for, in, no, to