This is an analysis of the poem The Merchant that begins with:
Imagine, mother, that you are to stay at home and I am to travel
into strange lands....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXcXdXcXebXXaXaaXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110111111010 0011 01011101010101010 11110011111111 11111 1011111101 110101011110 1010 100100101010110 1101 101001110101010 10111111011010 111001101 100101011101011 10111011111010 10110111 1101101010010101 01 11011101011010 1001001 111011101011011 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 995
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, pearls, on are repeated.
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- summary of The Merchant;
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