This is an analysis of A Fool by Francis William Lauderdale Adams.
HE asked me of my friend — 'a clever man;
Such various talent, business, journalism;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdcXXaXccaedfgfehigjkccccekjcgailcidfhaXdedXgaXjjedkXjeabdjaeeclebemXiXnkcjadgkignckaenchgmiajlceX
- Stanza lengths: 100,
- Metre: 1110111101 110010101010 01111111110 0110110110 1111111011 11010101010 11110101010 11110010101 1001010001 11010011101 100111100101 11001010111 1111110101 0111111111 1011010100 01010011111 01000100011 0101010101 11110101110 1111110111 0111110111 1101011101 1000010111 11110010110 1101110111 01010101110 1011011111 1001010101 0100010111 11011101100 1101010101 1101111101 010010111010 11111001101 0101011001 11111111010 10111101101 1101010101 1101111101 11111101010 1010100111001 11010101000 1001011101 11010110001 1001011101 1111011100 1001010101 10110010011 0101000111 10011100101 0101011111 0111111101 011011011100 111111101101 1111011001 1001101100 1111101111 1101011101 01001110100 11011101001 11110011100 1101110101 0101 1001101111 10111011100 1101010111 01010100010 10111011101 1101111111 1001110101 1101011111 1111101111110 1101 1101110101 1101111101 0111010101 0101011111 1100110011 0111010101 1111010111 10110110111 11010001110 0101010101 010101001101 1101110111 1101011101 1100110101 1001111101 1001011111 0101010101 11111100010 1000011111 01010110111 11010101010 0111001111 11100 1001010111 11111011110 0101011101 1101011001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 100
Repeated words/phrases
all, ', and, his, he, you, that, it
Epiphora
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