This is an analysis of the poem The Widow Of Nain that begins with:
Forth from the city, with the load
That makes the trampling low,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede ffff XeXe cgcg fcfc cgcg cece ghgh XiXi adadXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010001 110101 11010101 111101 01010101 110111 01010001 110101 10110101 100101 11011101 011111 11111101 110111 01011111 111101 111101100 111101 11010101 110101 01111011 110101 10110111 110101 01110111 110101 01010101 010101 11111101 110101 1111011 111111 11011101 010101 11110111 111111 01011101 0010101 01011111 010101 11010110 101101 11010001 011001 01010111 101101 11111101 010101 01010110 110001 11110001 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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