This is an analysis of the poem The Galilee Hitch-Hiker that begins with:

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
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  • Rhyme scheme: aX BcXcddeXfdghehhiXdXgbXjcklmmX lX engkabnXXXXkXXX XX fopXbchadlbXdpkhq XX ddXbbkcpXrXlddX pX bfbXXgihhjekbmcck pX gghqdXldXshenBdhlkidfEiefEg fX HfXqfbebededdjcdsabkri fX HfchijhfodacXcfXbch lX ddjamjbbXdmhbkfkbbrb XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,29,2,15,2,17,2,15,2,17,2,27,2,22,2,19,2,20,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 11 1001 100100 01101 1110 1101 1011 01001 0101 100 1001 111 11 1010 0001 1 100101 1001 10 100 1101 111 100 110 110 010 10100 111 110 10 0010001 11 100110 00110010 1110011 0101010 0111010 101 1001010 01010100 111101 1100 1100010010 1010111 010100 11101000 1100 1 11 100101 01111 1110 1101 111001 0010 11011 01010010 1101 111010 010101 01010 1100101 111010 10111 1101 011 01000 11 10010 101001 01100 11110 0101 10110 11110 100010 01011 10011 001000 011010 1111 001001 01 01000100 11 101 101 001 01 1100 1100 01001 1101 111 0110 10100 0101 10101 111 110 100 101 10110 11 11 1101 1001 11 1101 110 101 10 10100 101 111 110 1010 1001 10 111 11 1001 001 101 1001 00010 1101 1010 01 00010 111 0111 11 1001 00111 11011 11101 0100 01110 010 00110 00110 110010 101110 1011 01010 1101 100 111 011 0110 011 11 010 1 01010 11 1001 0001010 0110 0100 111 111 1111 001010 1111 1010 1110 1010 1100 110 01010 101 1010 110 11 111100 11 11101 11011 111011 11110 011 1110011 0111110 111001 010011 011101 1111 11101 00111 001 10011 110 111100 10101 010 11 1100 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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