This is an analysis of the poem That Other Maud Muller that begins with:

Maud Muller worked at making hay,
And cleared her forty cents a day.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb aa bb cc dd ee fX dd ff ff ggXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11010101 010110111 111100111 101110101 1001001001 110110111 110010111 1011100101 10010101 1110110101 110101101 01110001 10100111 011110101 101101110 11110111001 111110011 111110111 0010111011 1110100111 11010101 110110101 001011111 1011100111 110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her, and are repeated.

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

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

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