This is an analysis of the poem The Song Against Grocers that begins with:
God made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadad aXaeXfXf bdfdXgXg hbdbahch Xbfbfihi XbXbhhXhXabhbffef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 10100101 11110101 110101 10101010 1010001 1111010 111110 0101010 110101000 11101110 01101 11010111 110011 11001000 100101 0111010 111101 1111001101 010101 11010001 11011 1101110100 011101 01010110 010111 01010001 1110001 1111010 1100001 11010011 110101 11110100 110111 11011101 010101 11010101 101001 1111110 1111101 0101010 010101 11010101 110111 1101101 110111 10011100 110101 0101010 1010101 101000110 010101 11011101 010001 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, his, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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- summary of The Song Against Grocers;
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