This is an analysis of the poem Hawk And Buckle that begins with:
Where is the landlord of old Hawk and Buckle,
And what of Master Straddler this hot summer weather?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab abab abXb abab abaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011110 1101010011010 1010011011010 111010110010 10010011110 1101010011010 1100100101010 10010011010 10010011110 11010100011010 10100100111010 1110011010110 10011011110 1101110011010 10101100010101 0011011010010 10011011110 1101010011010 1110100101010 101101010010 100110111110 110011111010 10011011111110 1101010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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