This is an analysis of the poem The Fool Errant that begins with:
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life
And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acXd efgX h aiX jkak lhah hheh fXbm XXi d kgeX eggg gljl ghdX efhX hXlX aXac melX haXa hlalXeehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101101101 101101101101 01001101101 10101110101 1100101001 11100100100 1111011110010 10100100111 01011111001 0111110101 10111001001 1011001001110 111001000101 1110100101 1010101011011 101010011110 10101101001 1101100101 011000101 011100111 1100101001 0101011001 1001011001 1011110111 1100100111 1110110101 101001110101 10100011011 10110110101 1101110110 0101100101 1110101011 1011010110 11010110110 1110101001 1101101101 011100111 1110100111 1011110010101 1001011010100 1110100101 10100101001 110110111 010111001 0111011001 111110101 011101101 1010011101 111111101 111001010111 10001010010101 10101110110100 101110101101 10101100101 01101111101 111001001010 10100101111 1010011010010 1011110111011 11001011010 10010101101 1110011110110 111001011101 1110101100 10111111111 10110011101 1101100101 11110010010 1110001001101 1011100101 1010110111 111111101 1011111001 010111101 10110110111 11111010101 011111001 101011111 1110101001 11111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; his, he, her, to, of, and, fool are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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