This is an analysis of the poem The Gumsucker's Dirge that begins with:
Sing the evil days we see, and the worse that are to be,
In such doggerel as dejection will allow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba baba XacA daXa badA eXba aaba Xaea XacA cabA XacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111011100 011001100001 11101010110101 11001010111 10100011110111 10100111111 101010110111001 11011010111 101110111101001 10101011101 10101010010101 11011010111 10101011010101 10101010001 10111011111111 11011010111 1010111101111 10111010101 10101011110011 11011010111 10101011011001 10101110001 10100011010101 11111010111 10101011110111 10100010101 1010010011010101 11011010111 10111011110101 1100010001 10101011010111 11011010111 101001011100011 10101010101 10101010010001 11011010111 11101011011101 11111010001 11101110011101 11011010111 10101110110111 0101010101 10101111110011 11011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Gumsucker's Dirge;
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- idea of the verse;
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