This is an analysis of the poem Bewick Finzer that begins with:
Time was when his half million drew
The breath of six per cent; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaaba cdedbd fdXdcd cefXXeXbacafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 010111 11010111 111010 11010001 101101 11110100 010101 11110101 110001 01011101 111101 01010101 011101 01000100 010001 01010001 0100101 11000111 111001 01111101 111001 01111100 100101 11010101 111101 11110010 010101 01011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word time at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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