This is an analysis of the poem Oh You Gatherer that begins with:
Oh you gatherer
of the fine ash of poetry...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xa XXXXX dXdXeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100 00110100 100111 0100 0101111011 001110 100011010 10110 1011110 11010101 1100 11001 001001010 011 10101 11 011010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Oh You Gatherer;
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- history of its creation;
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