This is an analysis of the poem Who Owns The Land? that begins with:
Who owns the land ?
The Duke replied,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaabbccaabX AddeeffccaX AaaggccbbhXdX AaahhiiddccccjjcX AkklX AmmnnXXccXX AlleeiidX AbbbbbbooaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,13,17,5,11,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0101 111011101 01000101 11011111 11010101 01001001 11010101 01011111 01010101 11010001 1101 0101 111000101 11010101 11011111 011110001 11001001 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 1101 0101 101011101 11011111 11010011 01111101 11010101 111110101 11010101 10010101 110101100 11111101 110101010 1101 0101 111110011 11010111 11101101 11011101 11110101 11010111 010111001 11011101 11110101 111110111 101110101 11111101 11111111 11110101 111111000 1101 01010 1110111010 01011101 11110101 1101 01001 111011101 11110111 11011101 11111101 11111111 11110111 11110111 11110100 110011111 1101 0101 111110101 0101001 11111001 10010110 11111101 00110101 010011010 1101 0101 011110111 110101011 11011101 11011111 11010101 11010101 010010101 11110101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, i, he, my, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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