This is an analysis of the poem Old Town Types No. 22 - The Baker that begins with:
Our baker, Mr Brackenby, toiler in the night,
Was a lean, tall, glum man whose face was very white;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc XXXXddbb XXaXeeXa ffaaggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010010001 101111111101 01011101110101 101010101010101 01110101110101 001010101011101 101010101110101 11111101110111 01010101011100 111010100110111 1110101011111 001110101110101 11010100110101 01111100010101 111010101111101 1010101011101 1101111110101 11010100110101 11000100011101 101000100110001 11111101010111 01011111110101 11010101101111 1100100101010111 1011111001011101 111010100110001 101111101111101 001111101110101 111010100010101 111010110010111 0011000111111101 1010111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; he, to, and, ', that, in, his are repeated.
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