This is an analysis of the poem The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender that begins with:

WHEN William went from home (a trader styled):
Six months his better half he left with child,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ddaadd ffXeggeebbddaahhiiffjjkkllccaaaammccddaa nXiiaahhffaaddeegg bblleeggaa mmooaaaaccffddddkg aaddaappaaccaaiiaanndd bbggddddgg ooddggggbbdddd aallggmmookkiiddaaddccff ddkkbbkkggaalleeenddkkccaa eXaaooooddeeXaaddddkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,40,18,10,18,22,10,14,24,26,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111000111 0101010111 0101010101 0101110101 1111010111 11010111001 0101000101 1111010101 1101000101 0001111001 1101100101 1101001101 1111010011 0101011101 0101100101 00011100010 0101001101 0111010101 1111010001 1111011111 1111110111 1101000101 1101001101 0101010001 1111010101 1101000111 1111011101 1110010101 0111110101 1100111111 1101010101 0101001101 0111010111 1111110111 01101100101 1111011111 0111010101 0101010101 1101111101 1101110111 1100111111 01001101010 11111101010 1001010101 1101010111 1100011101 1101010001 0101010011 1001010100 1001001111 1011011101 0101010101 0100011101 11110111010 1101010101 1111011101 0100010001 1111010111 0101010111 1101011101 0111110101 0111110111 11010001101 0111111101 1101011101 1111100101 1111010111 1101111101 0101010101 1101000101 0111111101 01100110101 1001010101 0101010101 0111110101 1111011101 1110011011 1111010110 1101100101 1101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1011110001 0101010101 01010111101 0111010101 1111111101 01010110011 1101010101 0100110101 1101010101 1100010101 0101001111 1111010101 1101110111 1111111111 1011011101 0111011111 1100110101 0101110101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010111 0100110101 1101010101 0101011101 0101111111 1101010111 0101111111 0101111101 0101010101 0101010011 0100111101 1101110111 0111010101 0111010101 1001010101 11011101010 11000111010 1100011101 1111000101 0110010101 0100011101 1111010001 0101010101 1111110111 0101111101 1101110101 1101000101 1100010101 1111000101 0101011111 1111110101 0101010011 0111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101010001 01010101001 1011010111 1001011101 1101010111 1110110001 0111010111 1101000001 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1010010001 1101011101 0001011111 1001010101 1101010001 0101111111 1101010111 1111000101 1101111111 1011101001 01010000111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0111110101 1101001101 1011110101 0101111101 0101000110 1101011111 1101011101 0111010001 1101110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101011111 11100000101 0111010101 1101001111 1111011101 01001101001 1111001101 0100110111 0100011101 01010011010 1101110111 0101011001 0101011101 1111110101 0101110111 1101110101 1101110101 1101011111 0101000111 11011111110 11110100101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 0101010111 1101110111 1101010101 0111010101 1111010001 0101010101 0101010101 1111110101 1111001111 1101011101 1111001111 1101010111 10001000101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, she, he 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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