This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Hired Man that begins with:
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefdgh ifjXikgljmXjXXngiohX f X pebkifX X hqdX X X hX X X jglkkejqebrhcqqmdllgfX X irisfdlgsglpsiahX lhhlahjX jfhqfbX ldXfddhljX o iiehX eX lX kqjqdejXX X X hlkdqgrX X kiffffX X jqcklgX X ndXijfX gkj rf fXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,1,1,7,1,4,1,1,2,1,1,22,1,17,8,7,10,1,5,2,2,9,1,1,8,1,7,1,7,1,7,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111010 1011011101 11111101010 0110011001 111101100010 1111000101 11010011011 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 1011101011101 11110101011 10111110101 1111111101 1001110101 1011010111 1110110101 1111111111 1111010101 0111010110 11110110100 1111110101 1011011111 10111111011 1101010001 01110111010 11011111111 10011101010 0101110101 010111010100 11111110101 1011011011100 10111010101 1111011111 1001011101 01000111001 11011101001 1101011111 11110 10011110 1101111001 1111110111 11011101010 10111111010 100110111000 10100 10001001 111101011110 1000 1101111010 10110111111 1011010111 1101010101 1100110101 1101010101 1111011101 1011111101 1101011101 1111111111 0101110001 11110101010 0111010101 11011100010 1001110111 1111010111 0101010111 0111100101 11110010111 1101011111 1101100101 1011010101 10010101010 1011101110100 10111010101 11011111110 10110101011 10110011110 0100111111 1100111101 0100110111 1001010001010 11111101010 1101010001 0111011100 1111010101 1111000101 11110111011 110011011101 1101110101 01110101011 10111010100 11010010001 111100110100 11111100010 0001010111 11010101111 1101110101 110011001100 1101111110 1001011001 1101010101 1101011101 1100110001 1100110001 11110101000 1001110101 1001100001 0111000111 110100011101 0101110101 1001010101 1011010100 1111010001 100011111101 1100011110100 10001110 101111 0101111111 0111001101 11011101001 10011101010 100011111011 1101110 101110 101111001000 1011110111 1101011101 1100011101 10011011111 11010111010 1011111001 1011111101 1101110101 01100100010 1101110 11010 10101010101 110101011101 0110110100 1101010100 11110110111 0111010101 11011110010 111101110100 101010110 10111 10011011011 1101110101 1100011101 1111100110 1100110101 01010101110 101111011000 10111110111 11011111111 1101111101 1110111111 1101111101 10011111110 01011101010 101000100110 10100111110 1101010100 110111011 1101110111 1111001111 1111011101 0111010 0101 1101110011 0101010111 1001110100 10011101110 1000110 10011110
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 175
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; she, he, i, ', to, you, him, on, and, it, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, he, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words i, warren at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', home, moon are repeated).
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