This is an analysis of the poem Goblin Market that begins with:

MORNING and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abCBXddddXdXddeebbBffXXXbdXggbX adhdeecciifciXdfjXdkiklfmmXmncnXncXefefcocolldede kfkppf ffbXdceeeefmffFmebqlmlXiilXi mffceXeXXeXkoikfchchhhbfbf mXmdfflmldddmbbbnnnnnXjeoooerrdadfiiisiikkX imditnldtXbnmmm aalldcmmtiimtmmm tkktsddXddXds ooabXodafadfof tkkt
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,49,6,28,26,43,15,16,13,14,11,16,12,12,6,13,8,9,34,45,14,25,17,11,18,14,17,19,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 110101 1011101 1111 10110 101100 110010 101110 11110 110100 111110 110100 110110 101110 11010 01010 1111 1111 1111 111001 10000111 111100 111100 101100 1011 101110 1101100 10111 10001 1011101 11110 10110 0101110 1010101 101010 101010 001010 010111001 010011101 1100101 1010101 11111101 111111 11011111 1101010 10101010 100101 101101010 111111010 1010101 1011111 1010101 11010101 1010110 1011101 11010 1101 110101 01011 110111 111110 110111 111100 1001101011 1101111 11011110 1101010 0111111 100101010 10011101 11011 1101 111011 11101 110111001110 11010101010 101011101 101010 11011101 001010 1010101 1010101 1010001 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 0110101 101110 1111101 11110101 101110 100110 100110 100110 110101 1101 1010101 01011111 11110101 110101 01110100 1011101111 1011011 111110 01110101 0111110 01110 011101 01010111011 1101110 110010011100100 110101 11110101 1011111 010001 11110011 1111010 11110101 1101010 01010100 1011101110 1101010 1001001010 11010101 11011111 11111111 10110001 10110101 10110111 11010101 11010101 11111101 11101101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110111 111101 1010101 101100 10111111 11010110 1110001 0010101 11101010 11100011 11111110 11111110 1010 110101110 1100011 111101 101111 1011110111 110011 10011101 1111 1101010101 1101 1111010 1010110 101110 111111 111101 010110 1100110 101010 1111010 111101 10110 110111 11110 110101 110101 111101 11000101 10010111 100011001 1011110111 010101 1101110 1011101 1110011 1001101 111011001 1110111 11101101 1110100 1011101 1111010 1100101 10011001 1011011 111 1011101 1010011 100010 10111010 11111110 101010 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1110111 1110111 1110101 1001101 1001101 1101101 11001011101 110101 111101 1101000101 10110001 10110101 11010010001 1011011101 11010111110 110101 1101010101 110101 011111100 110100101010 110111 110101101 011100111 100101110 010101 101110 00100010 010101 111010 101010110 1010100100 10101 11010101 01110 011101 110110101 1101111111 1111010101 1011 01101101 111101 1111010111 1111010 1001010 11011111 10111111110 101111 0101011101 1101 10111110 1111111101 1111110101 1111 01011001 1111100111 11010101010 1101010101 110111 101101 1110010010 110011101011 100111 11011101 101101 0101000101 1101010101 101110 11010101 10110101 110111 011111 1101011111 010111 01001 1101000101 1101011101 100011101 110101 1111 010101 0101010101 10111101 11010101001 110101 010111 1101000101 111101 100111 11010101 110001 1111000101 1111 1010111 010101001 1101 11110 10101 1011101 11110 01010101 11010101 0111 110111 10110100 110111 11010001 111001 11111101 1111 0011 0100101 001101 0011101101 110100 110111 110111 1011 1101010001 1101010101 11110101 11011001 0101011 110010 111010 1010100 101010 10110 101010 101100 10110 101110 10110 01100 11111 101111 110010 101110 10101010 100111 100110 10110 10110 11010 11110 1011 101110 1011 11110 11110 1011 11010 11010 1001 1111 10110 1000010 1010110 10010 10111100 11010 10010 1010101 1011010 11010 10101010 11010 11110 100110 1111 11110 11111 11111 1110111 111101 010101 1111010 10101101011 110111 10110100 01011110 01111110 11111010 1111010 1010111 1101010 1100010 10110 1101 11010 1111 11010 1011 111100 111100 1011 10101010 10111010 1011101 1010101 1011111 01010101 1110101 1010001 10101101 11110000 1010101 0010101 10101010 1011101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 11101010 1010111 10101110 1110 101100 1010111 1110 1110 1010101 1110101 11110110 11010101 011100101 11010001 110111011 1101010 1110010 11010111 01010111 11011111 1100001 110001 01110 1101010101 1100010 001110 10101 1110111 11011101 101110 1101010 10001 01110001 1111 10111101 100111 1101 111101010 111111 01110101 1101110101 11010 1110001010 10111 1111 101110 11111110 1010111 1011101 111111 101101 11111101 11010101010 1010001 1011001 101 10101110 11101100 11111010 11111010 0101010 1100110 1010010100 1101010 111110 1101 010101 1011 101101 10010111 1111000101 010101 11111001 1101 1011011111 110111 01001001 1101 011101 11010111 1101010011 1111011101 10101 110111 1101011101 11011011101 10101001 11000101 11011000101 110111 010101 1100101 10110001 1111101 1010101 1010101 101 1011101 1111001 1111 1011101 0011001 1101 11110110 10010101 1101 1100011101 011101 11011100111 1101010001 0101 1111 1001011101 111011 1001110101 10011001 10010011 11011111 0101111101 011111 111001 1110 1001101 010011 11010101 11110101 10110101 11000101 110111 010101 11010101 01011101 11110001 110001 11110101 11010101 010100100 110100101 11010101 1101010 1010111010 0111010 011101001 01101101 01101101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 567
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, buy, and, no, one, like, brother, than, sucked, in, their, to, not, half, would, her, me, goblin, kissed are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, with, we, one, their, like, the, i, she, nay, and, must, it, in, half, some, or, her, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, like, her, me are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase life connects the lines.

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