This is an analysis of the poem The Workman And The Man With White Hands - A Dialogue that begins with:

WORKMAN. Why do you come crawling up to us? What do ye want? You're none of
us…. Get along!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab c dda cce fcXf ce d ghX b i hg j ki c f jXkXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,3,4,2,1,3,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101011111110 1101 10111110111 010101011010111111 1101111101101111 11111110 01011 10001 10 010 1001 1011110 1010 01011110001110111 10 010111111 010111011111010 1100110100111011 0100100010011111 010111011111010 1010 011000101111101001 011010111001 010101100 0110110011011111 010 01010011101000100 0110111 010101111110111001 0011100110111010 1001 01101111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; us, of, they, and, up, to, workman are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 see, hands are repeated).

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