This is an analysis of the poem At The Wedding that begins with:
There was weepin' by the women that the crowd could plainly see,
An' old William's throat was chokin' an' his eyes were watery, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa bbaX ccaa ddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101011101 111011101010100 111010101010111 101110101010101 101110101110101 111010101011101 1001010111110101 111010101110110 111011101010111 111011101110111 111011101111101 111010111110101 111010101110101 111111101010101 101011101010101 111000101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', i, he, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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