This is an analysis of the poem Market Square that begins with:
I had a penny,
A bright new penny,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaBcccB dXXB AaXBcceB fXXB XXXBcecB XXXB XXgBggeB Xfdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 01110 11110 00101 110010 010110 1111010 1101 1110011111100 10001010101000 101101011111000 1110101011011 11010 11101010 11110 00101 101010 0101010 111110 1101 1110011111100 1011010111000 101101011111000 1110101011011 11010 010110 110011 00101 1110110 11110 1111110 1101 1110011111100 1011110101000 101101011111000 1110101011011 1110 1110110 111011 00101 1111010 01110 1111010 1101 10101010111100 0101010111100 0101010111100 1110101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; penny, rabbit, lavender, i, mackerel, sorry, for, people, who, sell, i'm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i'm are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines penny, rabbit, lavender, mackerel, sixpence, nuffin', common are repeated).
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