This is an analysis of the poem The Lovers Of The Poor that begins with:
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdccdXefddeegdhicjjihdgkkliggklggkkXmXneglXlgXnXlmXecceeeeggXfXokeokoXXeXXgXebgoXboekiikoddooc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 99,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000111001 010010101110 0010110101011 01101001011010 111010111101 0111010001 10010010101 1001111101 1111110001 11011101010 11101110101 0111110101 0111000100 0111010111 1101110011 1001010111 1011110101 01010010101 01010100101 0001010111 00111101101 1101010001 01010101010 110010111110 0111110111 1100011111 0101110111 1101011111 1101000101 0101011101 10111010111 10111101001110 0101010111 11000010101 01110100111 1011000101 1011010111 0111010100 111100100101 111011111 11001011101 10010100010 10110101111 100010001 0101110111 111010111 1100010111 01010100010 100011101 1101101111 1101010001 110010010101 100101001000 1001111101 1001110101 0100100101000 1111010101 1101111101 11001011001 110100011101 1101110001 11001001001 101111101001 1100100100110 1011010111 1111001010 1011011101 10110011010 100110100110 01110100101 1100011101 10110011010 110010100111 110011101010 01010111110 01101111010 11111100100 11110011100 1100101101010 001010110111 101010000100 1101010101 101101100111 11110100011 10010100010 001010111110 010011111001 110010100010 0111010001 01010101010 0111110101 11001010101 11110010010 10110100010 0011111001001 10111010111 11111100010 10101010110 10010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4560
- Average number of words per stanza: 759
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, poor, old, soil, that, no, their, in, and, children are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words arrive, to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines old is repeated).
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