This is an analysis of the poem Bob's Lane that begins with:
Women he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob,
Old Farmer Hayward of the Heath, but he...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXec XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 1101000111 1101011101 11010101101 10100111101 1011010101 1101110101 11001001101 1101110101 11010101000 1111011101 01010101011 1001110111 11010101101 1001110101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; he, and are repeated.
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