This is an analysis of the poem The Eagle And The Mole that begins with:
Avoid the reeking herd,
Shun the polluted flock, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bgbg haha icic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 100101 111101 010001 010101 011101 110101 010100 111101 110101 110101 110001 000101 110101 0101001 100101 011111 010111 110101 110101 111101 010111 010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words the, he, with are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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