This is an analysis of the poem Market Day that begins with:
As I rode on the limber
Through the old French market-square,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXX dXdX edeX XXXX fXfX gXgX bbbbXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1011101 10111010 111101 0111111 110101 1001011 111101 1101011 111111 10111011 110001 11010011 111001 10101111 1101100 1101110 010111 10111010 110111 11111010 1101001 101001110 110101 100101010 1010101 1101010 1101110 11101111 1111111 1101111 0101001 1101011 10101101 10111011 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'the, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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