This is an analysis of the poem The Exiles. 1660 that begins with:
The goodman sat beside his door
One sultry afternoon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcd ce ae Xbab dfaf gece adhd Xcic bjgj kjlX ikfX bbmb njdj mbab ankX bXbo bbeX bmpX XamX qlmX mcac acac bkek Xcac cXad Xcrc pdcd dkmk mrsX cfmf maaa Xphp aacX cfXX XbbX abpb cXXX mXXs Xasa nqbq bfmf bcnc Xmom bnnn skak rfXf mbcb kmhm bkfk baba pkck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 110101 001110101 111101 010011001 011101 1010010101 1100101 11110111 010100 11110101 010100 110101010 111101 10110001 010111 11011111 010101 11010101 010111 11110101 100101 11110111 010100 01110101 0100101 01011001 100101 111111010 010101 11010101 011101 11010101 1100011 010001001 11111 111110101 011101 01010001 01110010 11010111 101111 10111001 010111 11011000 110111 11011111 010111 11010101 1100101 10010101 0101001 01010101 110101 11010111 110101 11010111 1110110 01011101 01001010 11010101 010111 11011101 010111 10111101 111100 11110101 011101 1111010 110011 101011101 110111 110111010 111101 10110101 11111010 110101010 111101 11010101 110011 10010111 011101 11011101 11001001 11001100 0111010 11011101 0101010 11010101 110011 01011100 010111 11101110 101011 11010101 1101001 11100101 1001100 01010101 110101 11110111 010101 100100101 011101 10010111 010101 110010111 0100101 01101101 111101 10111001 1101101 11010101 110101 01001100 011111 11011101 110101 01010101 011101 11010111 010111 01010101 110011 0111001001 010101 110101001 011101 01110111 010101 11010111 1101010 11010101 010101 11010110 1001110 110111010 110101 11010101 110101 01110001 011111 01111111 010101 11110101 1101100 11111101 110110 11010101 1110101 1100101010 110100 111101101 111001 101110100 0010101 10010101 1011010 11010101 1101010 11010101 110111 10010101 010101 11001111 10111110 11110101 1101010 11100100 011101 01000111 010111 11010100 110011 010101001 010101 01010100 010101 11010101 011101 11011111 11111100 111011100 11001010 01011111 011111 11110111 110101 01011101 010111 01100101 011101 010001110 111101 10110101 111111 11011011 1100101 011000100 110101 1101010 110101 1111110 010001 1101010 111101 1101010 111101 11011101 0100101 11110101 110111 1101110 1101110 11011100 1111010 1101010 111101 0101001010 110101 1111010 010101 0100110 0010001 1111100 010001 1111010 100001 1101111 010101 1101110 010101 1011010 1100101 111010100 0100110 1101110 111000 11001101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 61
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 240
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, with, thy, ', and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, on, no are repeated.
The author used the same words a, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Exiles. 1660;
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