This is an analysis of the poem The Old Herb-Man that begins with:
On the barren hillside lone he sat;
On his head he wore a tattered hat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc ddeee ffgga hhiicXaaffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011111 101110101 001110101 101110101 101011101 101010111 10101001 101110101 101110101 101011001 101011101 10101101 10111111 1001100101 101011101 101010111 10101111 11001101 111111001 001011111 101011111 10101111 00101111 001110111 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; he, his, with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
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