This is an analysis of the poem The Rag-Picker that begins with:
A pond of filth a sewer flows into,
Around whose edge the evil ragweeds crowd,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010100 0111010101 10010011111 1111110111 11000100111 11001110101 1001010111 0101111101 1100010011 1001111101 11010101 0100110111 0101010111 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
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