This is an analysis of the poem Day-Labourer that begins with:
Your luxury cars are plying through the streets
And your big ships are cruising Over the Oceans. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbbdbdebbfdabadgXebbabadbhXiXigXdjhXekfdkfbebghiiabeabgjXlXbbcalfdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110101 111111010010 01110110111 010010110100 111111010111 0111110 1010100111 111011001001 1111111 10010100100 010011101 101100100 0011101 110111110010 11111101 11011110101 01010111 1101111101 0110111010010 110011100 11101101001 10010111010 1101011010 1101 1111010111 10101101001 01101001011 1101011 1010011 111101010 11100 01111 011100 0100110110 11111110 1110101 11100101 010011101 1011111 1101011110 111101010100 100100110 1000100001 0110011010 010010 11001110101 01100101 11110101001 11010011010 1101010011 01011001 10101001001 01001101 011101010 1001011011011 101011011011 1110011 1111010 1111011000100 010011001011 010110101 011000010 000110110 0100101011 010100100100 1010101 010010010 01011010011 0011010001 0100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1369
- Average number of words per stanza: 240
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, let, and are repeated.
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