This is an analysis of the poem A Drought Idyll that begins with:
It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare,
You might search for grass with a microscope, but nary grass was there;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaeX XXddaX Xbffcc ccaagg eeeeaa hhiijj iibbXX hhiikX eekkcc XllXkk bbiiXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010001011111 1111100101110111 01110111010101 011001010110110101 010000111011111 010101010101001 01010101110101 01111111010111 01110101110111 01010100111111 01010101010101 010110111111101 101101111111111 11111101111101 110101011100011 01010101111011 11110111010101 110101011010101 1101101011101 11011111010101 11110101010001 10111101010101 11010101110101 11010101010101 01011101111101 11110001111101 01110111101111 010101011011101 01011101110001 11011101110101 01111111110001 010100100110111 11111101010101 1111011011110101 111101010110111 1110101111111 11110101111101 110111001110101 01010101101101 111100011101001 01000101110101 11111111100111 010101011100101 01010101010101 11011111010101 001011101010111 01010101110110 1010101011001 010100101010011 11010111100101 11110100111101 100111111100111 10010111011101 111010111111010 01010100010001 10100101010101 11011101010001 11111111110101 11111101110111 110010111010101 11010101010101 01011101010101 111101010110011 10010101010101 11110101010101 11010100011001 01111101010111 11111101110111 11110101010101 110010101110101 01110101010101 010111101110111 11111101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', and, they, that, up, with, on, laughed, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, that are repeated.
The author used the same word mcginty at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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