This is an analysis of the poem Pavement Poet that begins with:
God's truth! these be the bitter times.
In vain I sing my sheaf of rhymes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX aaX ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 01111101 11110111 11010101 101010110 111101000 11011111 101001111 111111010 11011101 01110101 11111101 01111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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