This is an analysis of the poem Ox Cart Man that begins with:
In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXca deXXe fffgh cggdfXbghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001 1101010011 100110 010101 11011011 111101010 011010 1010 11000010 111101010 11101111 0101011010 101110010 111110101 101 1010101101 101011101 101111 101010 001111110 111110100101 10110 1111001 1101111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines potatoes is repeated).
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