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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