This is an analysis of the poem From 'In The Village' that begins with:

Once upon a working day in summer-time
I passed through a village. In a dreary line ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddeeffXghhifjjeekkllXgcaabmmbamiXiXm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010101 11101000101 1110010101010 111011111110 00111010101 11001011101 111011111110 101111101010 010100010101 1101101110101 0101100101111 111110111011 10101110111 111001110111 1001110111010 1111010101010 11101000111 11011010001 11111101010 111110101010 10011011101 110101110101 0101111111010 01010010101010 111101000110 110101110001 1101001110010 0110010101111 110111010001 010101011101 1101011011010 0100010100010 11101110111 110001100101 01110101000010 1101111101110 1100010111000 011101011101 11010111011000 011010011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 375
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; no, all, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all, him are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.

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