This is an analysis of the poem The Pavement Stones :A Song Of The Unemployed that begins with:
WHEN first I came to town, resolved
To fight my way alone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXCB Xdddecfc aacagege XbfbXbXb bcacaXCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 011101 11011111 010101 1111010 111110 010111001 010111 11011101 110001 10111101 010101 0101010 010111 11010101 110011 11011111 010111 11011100 111101 11101111 011101 11110111 110101 11011111 111101 011101111 111101 1101010 111111 11010101 010111 01011101 010101 01010111 111101 11110101 111110 010111001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines made is repeated).
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