This is an analysis of the poem On No Work Of Words that begins with:

On no work of words now for three lean months in the
bloody...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaab ccb dde Xffe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111011111100 10 10001110110110 1100101110011 010101011010010 10010101101010 0101001111011 0101010010101 1011111000011 110100101000011 001010010010101 10101111001001 01101101011011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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