This is an analysis of the poem Laissez-Faire that begins with:
We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens,
Altho' in price they counted less than cattle,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ababebeb XfXfgdgX hihigXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100110101 10011101110 1111011100111 01100101110 1111010111 0100111001011 0101011101 11010101011 1111110101 10111111010 1101010101 11010001010 0101010111 11110111010 1101110101 010011100010 0101010101 11111101110 1111110011 01010011110 1011110101 10111100111 1101010111 11011101010 1101010111 10111111010 010101101 11011101110 00110100101 11011101010 1101111101 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Laissez-Faire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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