This is an analysis of the poem What The People Said that begins with:
By the well, where the bullocks go
Silent and blind and slow --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcdbcX eXefegegbXbX ahaahfXffX fifiedeX eXibibeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,10,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 101111 10110111 00100101 11110111 010010110 0100111 10111010 110010110 1111111000 10101001 1100101 11111011 10100001 1101001 111001 10100101 10101 11100111 11111 00010111 1010100 111110111 1100101 110100111 111101101 10111011 10100101011 101011010 1010101101 101101011011 11101101 11010110 111001 11001101 101001 11111101 111001 11001001 11101000 10101001 1100111 10010011001 1111001 1100111001 10100101001 10110101111 101000010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; of, and, he, in, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, that are repeated.
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