This is an analysis of the poem Thirty Bob A Week that begins with:
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw,
And set the blooming world a-work for me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcb dedeXe cfcfef ededbd gfgfhf ieiede ajajcj ehehch fkfkcX hchcXc ffffdX bgbgfg lklkXk eeeele fafacaXjcjcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1101010111 1111111111 10100010011 11110111101001 00111011111 11101011101 1111110111 01010010001 101010010001 110101111101 11100110101 1101110001 0100010101 01101111001 0101010101 110111011101 0101011101 10101011101 11101010101 10101010001 11010101001 1111111010001 10101011011 11101010111 11101110101 11101110101 11101010111 111101111111 1111111101 1110010101 0101010111 0101011101 101010101 01101111110011 01101010011 1101110101 1111010101 0101110111 00100010101 10101111100111 11010010011 1100111111 0101010101 11101110001 1101010101 00111011101001 11101111101 11101010001 0111011101 0101010101 1101110001 1101111110001 1101110110 10101010101 1110011101 111011101001 11011010011 110001001001010 111010101 1101110101 11101111011 0110010001 1111010001 1101011111111 11000101001 10011110100 1101010101 1101010011 10100110101 010101111001 0100010101 1101110111 0110111101 1101111111 0111000111 101101010101 1111010001 1101111101 1111100101 1101110101 1101110001 01010100100001 110010110011 1101011101 1101110101 10100010101 10100010111 0010111010101 1111010111 00101010101 0101010101 0101010101 01001110111 101010111011001 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, your, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, a, it's are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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