This is an analysis of the poem After Collecting The Autumn Taxes that begins with:
From my high castle I look at the town below
Where the natives of Pa cluster like a swarm of flies....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXXcdaXbXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011101110101 1010011010101 1111011011010 11010101111 1111111101010 0110110101001 110010001101 111011010101 0101111111011 11101010011 001010101001 101010101001 0101110100101 1111110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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