This is an analysis of the poem On A Country Life that begins with:
I hate the clamours of the smoky towns,
But much admire the bliss of rural clowns; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccaaddaaaXXaddaabbeeffaXggaahheeaafXggiijjiiiiggeekkggllmmjjiinniiggmmmmmmmllggbbmmaaabXXaaaiimmeeffmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 108,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1101010101 1101010001 11110101001 11110100101 1011000101 0101000101 1010010001 01010001001 1101000101 010010010101 111110111 0101000101 1000110011 0100100101 100010011110 01010101001 01111101001 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010001 11001000101 10010011101 00101010101 11010001101 11001110111 1011110101 01001001101 1100010101 1101010111 1101010001 01011101001 1011010001 1011000101 0100011111 1101110101 0101010101 0011001101 11001010101 01010100111 1101110110 0101111101 1011111101 11001101001 0101010101 1101010111 1101011111 1111010101 01010100111 1111001101 11110100111 11010101001 10110101001 1101010101 1101010111 11010101001 1011011101 1111100101 11110000101 1111011111 0011110101 0101110101 1101011111 1101110101 1101011001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 11110101001 11011100101 1111011011 1110010101 1101011001 1011010101 11011101001 1001101101 11010010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 11100100101 1101010101 0111010101 01001011101 1101110101 1111111101 1011010101 01110101001 1111100101 1001010101 11010101010 0101011101 1111010101 01011100101 101101110111 1111100101 1101001101 111110001 1111110101 1011000101 1001001100 0101010001 1101010111 11110101011 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4889
- Average number of words per stanza: 837
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, then, he are repeated.
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