This is an analysis of the poem Murtagh The Cobbler that begins with:
The harvest moon was shinin’
As Murtagh came from the fair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acXc XXde fbXb edgd efhf ibjb ijej ddid dgXg hjdj XiXi XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101110 1101001 110100111 10100001 011100101 0100111 110010101 1111111 01001011 1010110 0101110 0100101 111101101 1011101 1110100101 10100101 111001010 101101 01001011 00100101 1111010 111101 111001010 10100101 11111110 11101111 11010101 1011101 10111110 0010101 111101001 1011111 101011011 11101001 1101010 1101101 011010101 101001101 10101110 101111 10101010 0100101 1010010101 1010101 1111110 11001111 110010101 1100111 111101010 0100101 110100101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; he, of, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, who are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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