This is an analysis of the poem Northern Farmer: Old Style that begins with:
Wheer 'asta beän saw long and meä liggin' 'ere aloän?
Noorse? thoort nowt o' a noorse: whoy, Doctor's abeän an' agoän;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXcddXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXee XXXX bbXX aaXX XXcc ffbb gXXa XXXX XXee XXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111110110 11110111010110 1111111111101 11111110100111 1011110111101 11111101001101 11111111011111 111111101011101 1010110010101111 11001010110100011001 10111111101111001 11110111111101 10111101101101 1011100110101 10111010111111 110111011100101 1110100111011011 111010100101011011 11101010101011110010 111011010111110100 1010111110001 101101110111 101111111111100 11110111111101 1100110110101011 1100110110100011011 11101011101001 1111100111111001 11101111111111 1101000110111000 110101111101101 1111110111011011 100111111010011 110110010110001 1110010111111010 11101011111111 10110101111101 1111101111101 111011111111 1010101110111 100110111110011011 101111011011011 010001101101110 11110111011111 110001111001011 1111110111001 111011111111 11110111100101 0111011011101011 1011101100101001 1100001111111 1101011100101 111001011110101 101000111001011010 1111110111010001 111101111111011 111101101101101 111010110111011 1010111011010010 11010100101001 1101110110111011 10110011101011 1111111111101 1111111111110010 1101011111101 101010111101011 11111100111101 111111110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n, be, nt, i, o', an', my, to, y, 'um, she, at, it, d, me, ta, mun, doy, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, te, d, y, ste, ce, m, le are repeated).
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