This is an analysis of the poem Kail Yard Bard that begins with:
A very humble pen I ply
Beneath a cottage thatch;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab Xcdcdc eaeaea fgfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 010101 100101011 011101 10010111 0101 11110111 011101 01011111 111111 10010101 0101 111100101 111111 11110100 010001 11011101 1111 11111111 110101 11010111 011101 11000101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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