This is an analysis of the poem Lazy Man's Song that begins with:
I have got patronage, but am too lazy to use it;
I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbcdXcXXXdcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011110010 111111110010 11111110010 111111110010 11111111001 1010110110010 111011111001 10101100111 111110111001 11011111001 11110011110 111010111010 010 1111011111 10110101100 1110110110010 11011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 833
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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, too, lazy, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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