This is an analysis of the poem The Three Black Crows that begins with:
Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand,
One took the other briskly by the hand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccaaXXdXeXffgghdechXccccceXf fXbcXaaXhXeaf ef XXXcedXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,13,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010001 1101010101 1111111100 0101111101 0101100111 1110000101 1111110101 1101011101 1001100111 0100111101 0101110101 1001011111 1000111101 1100011111 1111110101 100100100111 1011010001 1110101111 111011101 11011 1 111 1 1 0101110101 1001000101 1111110101 1001010101 011 1 11110 1 0101110101 01000111010 1111111101 0111110111 1010100101 1001010101 1101011111 1111101111 1111010101 111011 11 1 1 111111110 1 0111000111 1101111101 0101011111 1111011101 1011111101 10111 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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