This is an analysis of the poem The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics that begins with:

Fight through ignorance, want, and care —
Through the griefs that crush the spirit;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbebebfbf egegbhbh ccccicic hhhhjXjg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111 10111010 11100101 101001110 110110101 10111011 10110111 11011011 110111111 01101010 111111101 111001010 110110101 10101010 010110101 101001010 111100101 001110110 11100111 11110110 111011101 11101011 110111111 11111011 1010110101 11101110 110110101 001001010 1100110011 11111010 1111101111 01101010 1110101101 10111111 110100101 10101011 1110101101 01011110 1111101101 11001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, you, and, me, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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