This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Wage-Slave that begins with:
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay,
I hope that it won't be hell-fire, as some of the parsons say....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiiffjjkkffffcXcciiccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010111111 1110101101100101 11110101001001011 1110110101101 1111110111101 1011110101101 11010101101011 111010101010111101001 1110111101101011 100010100111 111100101111011 1111111101101111 110111101101101 10111101110101 11110101011001001 100101011100101 110010101001101 1010010101011 10111101111101 01011010101111 10010110101101 1011011100101 010110101101101 11101100101110101 1001011101111 11111001010111001 1111111011011101 11111111011111000 1010010110110001 100101101001011 101100111011001 1001101011001011 100100111001101 101110000100101 1011111101101 111111111101011 101111010101001 10111010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2423
- Average number of words per stanza: 467
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, thou, to, of, my, in are repeated.
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