This is an analysis of the poem Ten Thousand Men A Day that begins with:
All the world was wearying,
All the world was sad;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdED efffedED XdfdcdEd gaXaXdED gbXbedeD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 10111 1011111 10101 1010111 10111 110101 10101 1110101 1101 1011101 10101 1010101 10101 110101 10101 1010101 10111 1110101 11001 110101 10101 110101 010101 1110100 10111 1010101 00111 1010101 10101 110101 10101 1111111 01111 10001001 10101 1000101 100101 0110101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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