This is an analysis of the poem The Hired Man And Floretty that begins with:

The Hired Man's supper, which he sat before,
In near reach of the wood-box, the stove-door... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaeXbfgXh iaajXjjd jjeecXkkXX jjaalljjccllggllkkccjjiiaaccccdd Xmllhh acimcX jXnnccjjccjjihaaX jjm XcaakkXccccciXddXfcXkX oocjlleecc ccXjmX lmnmgibiX fX fmm dinX XbXmllaXXiii jjkkXkaall
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,8,10,32,6,6,17,3,22,10,6,9,2,3,4,12,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01011011101 0110011011 1110010101 1101010101 0101110001 0111010100 1011011101 0111110101 0111110101 1101011001 0111011111 100011111 0011010101 1100010111 1101011111 10110101010 1111010100 1111101001 1101010111 1001111101 1101010111 0101111101 0100100101 0111001101 010101 1011 111101001011 1011111111 1101110101 11111111001 0101111110 010101111 1111111101 1111011111 1110111111 1101000101 01011010101 01010010111 11010101001 00110000101 1011110101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101001 01010010111 0101010101 11010000101 1101110111 1011011101 1110010101 1101011101 1100010101 011110001 1111010101 1001010100 0100010111 0111110011 0111011101 0101010101 0101110111 1101010101 0011011001 0111010101 1101010101 1111111111 11110101010101010101 01001101 11 1001100101 1101110110 0100010001 11000011100 0100110100 1111 0111 11111111 1111 0111 011111 1110001001 01011011000 0101010110 0101110100 1101111101 0100110111 1011010101 111100111 1111111101 010101111 0101011101 1111010101 111110011 0111010100 1001111101 1111111101 1011110 010 0111110101 1001110 101 010111110101 1111011111 1101011111 0101011101 0111010101 1101110111 1111011010 10110011111 0111110101 1111110111 1101010111 1111110101 1001000100 1100111101 0111111111 11111111010 1111110101 1111110100 1100110111 1101010111 1111011101 1111110001 1101010111 1011111111 0101010111 0101010101 1110011101 1110011001 1100011101 1110010111 1101110101 1101010111 1111010001 11010111010 1001010111 0101110100 0011010100 111010010 11001001 111011110 11111011 101010010 11111001 1010111010 011110011 01111001 10010101111 11100100 111 0100110001 01011100101 1111011010 11011011 1010110010 101001101 1101110110 1101010001 1001110111 01110111101 1111010111 1111111111 1101111001 11011101110 1101000111 1001010101 1001110101 0101110101 0100010111 0101010111 0101011100 0111010101 1111001101 0101010111 1110110111 1001010001 0110001101 01001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, that, she, so, in, and, thinking, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the, regret, when, a, of are repeated.

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