This is an analysis of the poem The South Country that begins with:
When I am living in the Midlands
That are sodden and unkind, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb deaeEe beaeee bcfcXc daXacaXa agbgag bbfbeb aXabdb fbXbcbXbeEe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,8,6,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100011 1110101 11110010 110101 101100110 110011 01100110 110101 101100011 111100 10110111101 100101 01110110 110101 111101011 111111 011010111 010101 01110110 110101 01011101 110101 11010001 1010101 1011100110 1010111 111100011 10101101 1100110001 1100111 01001001101 1101001 11010101 1110101 1110110101 11101 1010101001 110111 01111101 101011 111110101 1110101 10100101 110011 10101100111 00100101 11010101 110101 1010100110 111101 011001011 101011001 10101011 0101001 111010101 10100101 101110011 0101001 10110111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, the, they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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