This is an analysis of the poem The Man Who Hasn'T Got A Job that begins with:
Where willows flickered their shadows down
On our blistered backs and our faces brown ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a b b c D e fe fggccgD f h fh a a iidD df d f c c h h d d j cj ceekkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,7,1,1,2,1,1,4,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101111 1110111101 1111001010 111101010 111100101 0010100101 010101110 1101101101 01010100110 101100111 1110100111 110110101 1111011110 11101011110 1111100101 0010100101 110100101 11100101111 1110011111 11110101 0110100101 1101101111 011011101 1110100111 1111100101 0010100101 1010100101 011110101 111100101 0010100101 110110101 111011111 110110111 011111101 111111101 010100101 011101101 11011111 011101101 111110111 1111110111 111111101 1110001011 1110101111 1101100101 1100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i, to, we, as, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our are repeated.
The author used the same words the, our 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 ago is repeated).
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