This is an analysis of the poem Middleton's Rouseabout that begins with:
Tall and freckled and sandy,
Face of a country lout; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cXcX XddX efef cbcX abaX XddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 100101 01010010 100100 1001010 00101011 1110010 101101 11001100 101011 1010010 101010 1000110 101101 10011010 1001011 1001010 111111 10011010 1110100 1001110 110111 00010010 100100 1101100 1001010 1010010 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hadn't, hasn't are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rouseabout at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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