This is an analysis of the poem The Wrangler that begins with:

ONE day a shameless and impudent wight
Went into a shop full of steel wares bright,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee aaaacXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011001 1000110111 010101101 1101011101 1110101011 0101111011 11011101101 011110011 11011011011 1101101101 010011101 11010111 01011111 01010101 101111101 0101010000 11010101 11110101 10101000101 0101100101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Wrangler;
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  • history of its creation;
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