This is an analysis of the poem The Grain Tribute that begins with:
There came an officer knocking by night at my door
In a loud voice demanding grain-tribute....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacdXcXbXXddbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001011111 0011010110 11101111010 11101101011 11011111 0111101001 11111001101 011101111011 1010110101 1110001111001010 0010110110101 1101010100 101111100101 10111001101 10101011111 001010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
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