This is an analysis of the poem The Singer's Alms that begins with:
In Lyons, in the mart of that French town,
Years since, a woman, leading a fair child,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbee ababff gggXbX adadeX hfhfii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100010111 0101010011 1011011101 0101101111 0101010101 1111111101 01001011101 0101010100 1111010001 0111010111 1001111101 1100111101 0111011101 0101010111 11011100101 0101111101 11010010101 1111010001 0101010101 0101110101 01010010001 101101001010 1011010111 1001010101 0100111101 0001011101 01010101111 1100111101 0101111101 1011110111 1111110101 1101110111 1101111101 0100010101 0111010101 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, his, he, and, her are 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.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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