This is an analysis of the poem He Had Not Where To Lay His Head that begins with:
The conies had their hiding-place,
The wily fox with stealthy tread ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdXd XcXc Xcbc daba bede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011101 01010101 01011101 11010101 01011101 010010101 110100111 11010101 10111100 00110111 11110111 11111111 01111101 11101101 01110111 01100101 11110111 11010111 11100101 11010101 11011001 01010001 01100001 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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