This is an analysis of the poem Abel Melveny that begins with:

I bought every kind of machine that's known --
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabaXccadXadXXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100100111 10101010 11111110 1100100111 10101110 111110100 1111100 10101111010 111101010 011111111 111100111 1110101010 111111101 010111010 1100101 100111 111110001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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 and is repeated.

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