This is an analysis of the poem Hem And Haw that begins with:
Hem and Haw were the sons of sin,
Created to shally and shirk;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc XeXe ffdf cXcX cbeb ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100101 01001011 1111111 110101 1101011101 1110111 1010110101 11001101 1101001011 10100101 1110100101 110101 111110001 1111101 110010111 10110101 1101101111 1101101 1111111111 1100101 110010101 0101111 1100101101 111101 1101011001 0010101 1100100101 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word hem at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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