This is an analysis of the poem The Poor, Poor Country that begins with:
Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,
The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found little there. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ccbb ddXb eebB ffbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110110010011 0101101011011101 10111011010111 110011011011 11010111010001 110110001101 01111111110011 101110111001 11010011111101 110110100111101 110110011010101 10111011011 010110011100101 110101010010101 110101011111100 1101010111001 11011001110111 110101101010101 101001001111111 10111011011 011101111010101 011011011110101 11111101110101 10111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, the are repeated.
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