This is an analysis of the poem The Scarecrow that begins with:
Once I said to a scarecrow, 'You must be tired of standing in this
lonely field.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX XX X Xa X bb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,1,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101101001000 101 11111010001110111 101001 1110001011011111 111 1110111101111 1111110101110101010 1 01110101010100 1111110111111001 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; and, of, i are repeated.
The author used the same word said 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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