This is an analysis of the poem When I A Householder Became that begins with:
EARLY in the morning, when the dawn is on the roofs,
You hear his wheels come rolling, you hear his horses hoofs; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000101010101 1101110110101 1101010111101 11011101010101 011101110100101 11000101110101 11010100010101 11110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, hear, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are repeated.
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