This is an analysis of the poem A Mammon-Marriage that begins with:
The croak of a raven hoar!
A dog's howl, kennel-tied!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cbcbc dbdbd ababa ebebeXababa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101 011101 110101 0110111101 0111 1101101 01101011 0111001 10100101001 0101 0101011 101110 0101101 1110101110 111 111111 1001011 10100101 11011101 10111 111001 1111101 010111 0010010101 10101 1111011 111111 110101 100101111 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; side, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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