This is an analysis of the poem The Fiddle And The Crowd that begins with:

WHEN the day was at its middle,
Tired of limb and slow of pace,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefggAhciciXAAXababcdcdhdhdbbAXcXccXAAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 10011101 101000010 0010101 10101010 11101010 10101010 11101110 11101010 00101110 10101010 10101110 1011101 1010001 1010 1110 11101010 10101010 11101110 10101010 10101010 1010 0010 00101010 10101010 1011101 10111010 1010101 10101010 11101010 10101010 10101110 11010010 11101010 10100010 10101010 1011101 1010010 1010 1110 00111110 10001100 10101010 10101010 10101010 1010 0010 00101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1442
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words talk, and, telling are repeated.

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  • summary of The Fiddle And The Crowd;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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