This is an analysis of the poem Ollie Mcgee that begins with:

Have you seen walking through the village
A man with downcast eyes and haggard face? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXaXXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111101010 0101111101 101101110100 10001110111110 1111010101 101011100100 110001 1111111101 0101110101111 11101001111 01111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Ollie Mcgee;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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