This is an analysis of the poem A Royal Cracksman that begins with:
When the housebreaking business is slack
And cracksmen are finding it slow ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXddX cecedXccd fgfgaXffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001001 11011001 11011011 101101101 11001001 110 111011 01011 101001001 01011101 01010011 111101001 111011001 101000101 001001011 01001 101001 001001001 11001001 011010001 1010010111 01011101 11100101 010111010 010101 101101 0010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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