This is an analysis of the poem The Iconoclastic Rustic And The Apropos Acorn that begins with:
Reposing 'neath some spreading trees,
A populistic bumpkin... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbXX cdcdccee dfdfggaa hihiXaXX ghghcchhXeeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011101 0100010 010111001 0101010 11100101 11110101 11010010 01010101 11010011 0101010 11111111 0110010 10010101 11010101 01010111 01011111 11110111 1101010 11011011 0101010 11111101 11010111 11010101 11010001 11011101 1101010 01001101 0110110 11011101 01001101 11010111 11011101 01010101 1111110 11010011 1101110 10011111 11010100 01010101 01010101 010001001 01011001 11010011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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