This is an analysis of the poem A Commentary On The Eastern Wise Men that begins with:
Three pedlers traveling to a fair,
To see the fun and what was there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dXeffX gXXbXX ffbbbb ffahhX hhfhhX iieeeX ccdhhd ffeiie ggdjXd ffaXXa kkleel ccfccm bbkjjk nnmggm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100001 01011111 111101 11010101 01110011 111011 11011100 11111100 010001 11010011 110010101 1101100 1111011 01011011 0011010 11010100 11010101 01010011 11110111 11111101 1101110 110111111 11010100 101110 11010111 010010101 111101 111101010 110101010 1101010 101011101 01010101 01011111 01110101 01010101 111111 11110101 11001101 1101010 110100101 01111101 01001000 010011111 11011111 010100 01110101 001011101 011101 11100101 11110111 110001 11010101 01010101 101101 110010001 11010101 0100101 011111110 01010110 110101 11111111 111110111 111101 11110101 11010101 010101 1001100010 0101010010 11101110 01111101 11011001 1101010 101111101 01010101 111100010 11010101 01111100 1101010 11011101 10111111 1101010 110101010 110101010 0101010 11010101 01110101 0101010 11010101 01110111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 90
- 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; to, ', one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.
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