This is an analysis of the poem The Auction Sale that begins with:
Within the great grey flapping tent
The damp crowd stood or stamped about;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaababacaXcaaaXdefabe gghXddadaaaa iaXiXaadjkafabb kcllmkkkallXembdbd cicklafbeke bljbalkakkXjXeX anicai lkldkbklaobdombboXoXoXded ldckeppelkllcnhXklndlkkoeeae kllellX iobdcXbconeikekk npXckkXkcXglaldpelhge clkXkXXkkkkkmfknqqX loekoceafidaei bXkckXkkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,12,15,18,11,15,6,25,28,7,16,21,19,14,20,7,16,1,18,12,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01111101 11101111 01010101 11010111 11110101 011011111 10110101 11011101 01011100 11010101 11011111 10110101 11010101 10011101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01111100 10010101 11010011 11010101 10110101 0101001 11110100 10110111 10110111 10011101 11011111 01010101 11011101 1011101 11110001 0101101 11011101 01010100 01111101 1101011010 01011101 1000101 11011101 11001101 11001101 100101001 11101101 11010101 110010101 11010101 01010111 11010011 111011101 10111101 100101010 000101101 01000001001 11111100011 0111110111 11110101 0111101 1001010100 11010011 110111010 11010101 11010001 11111111 01011110 01001101 010000101 110101111 11000101 110100101 11010101 01000111 110010101 10010101 00010001 11110011 110000101 10010101 100101001 1111101 10110101 11010101 01010101 01110101 10010111 010101110 110101100 11010101 11011101 11010111 110100110 11110001 11010100 01111101 01011101 11111101 10010101 1010010001 100101001 10110101 101010101 11011111 00110101 11010101 1 0101101 11101101010 1011001101 11110111 00101001010 1100101010 11010101 101101101 01100101010 1001010100 111101010 10011111000 1001010010 01010100 011010101 11110011 11010101 101110101 01010101 10011101 01010101 01010101 10111101 01011111 100010101 1 01011 1010111101 001110111 001010101 01001011010 1010101 1111010100 010101110 10011101 01010100 11010010 10010101 01011101 11010101 111101110 010010101 110010011 11111111 11110011 11010101 01010111 01011101 10110101 111100101 01010111 111110110 11010011 100111010 01010101 11000101 10110101 111010101 10011101 010011101 011111110 01010100 01011101 11001101 11011101 01010101 11000111 10010001 010111010 01011101 1011111100 11010101 11000111 01011101 0101010100 1110101 10110101 01111100 01111101 110011101 0101011110 111010101 11100101 1101101010 11010101 11011101 1100110010 1101100111 110110101 01010101 110101111 10110011 10101110 01010101 011101010 11101110 10111111 1011111001 01010111 01111101 1101011101 1111101010 10010111 100101110 11111010 1010111 11110111 10111110 11010101 01000100 11010011 11011111 010100001 011100010 10110111 11011111 11111101 110011011 10101101 11010101 111100010 11111101 100100101 10001010010 10011111 10111101 100100101 10001010010 100010100110 10101101110 110100101 1110011010 100010100100 101111010 110110101 01010101 01011011 110101010 01111101 10110101 11011101 11010111 11010101 11011101 11110101 11010001 11000101 110111001 110101010 11010111 01110101 011101001 10110101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11111111 01111111 01011100 100010101 11010110 11110101 11010101 01100101 10110101 11010101 0101101 010100100 010101010 100101010 101101001 0101111100 1010111 100101010 01000101 01010011 01111101 110100010 10011101 110101010 11001101 0100111010 110011101 1110000101 110111010 01010101 101111010 110111110 11111001 11010111 110010101 11111111 11100101 10110101 11110101 1011111 10011010 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 308
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; from, and, her, meaning, seven, by, proper, yes, sir, you, i, oh, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, the, though, any, i, oh are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i, and 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 say, five, bid, sir are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases yes, twenty connect the lines.
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- summary of The Auction Sale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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