This is an analysis of the poem William Goode that begins with:
To all in the village I seemed, no doubt,
To go this way and that way, aimlessly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbabaXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100101111 0101111100 111010111111 0111111111 11110111 10111011111 00111101 1101111 010010010111 100101 111011101 0101111100 0100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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