This is an analysis of the poem Thar's More In The Man Than Thar Is In The Land that begins with:
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones,
Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXb aacccb ddeeXb aadXdb ccfXfb ffgggb hhXcb iiXiiX ffhhhb ddjjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,5,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111101 11001001111 11110111001 1011101111 10111101110 11110101011 0110101101 11111011111 1110110110010 110111010110 11101111110 11010101001 10101101011 11111100101 11100101111 101011001111 10110111011 1010111011 111111101 1001111011 1110101111 11001011001 11001011011 1011110001 11110110111 10101100111 1110110101 1111011011 1101101101 1101101101 1110101101 1111101011 11001101011 11010101 0010100101 0111110101 111110111 11110101101 1111010101 11100111101 11101101001 10111111 1111111101 1010110100 0010101101 1110101101 111111101 1111101101 11101101111 1111100111 01001011011 01011101011 11111101101 111110111 110010101 1111111101 111111111 110111111 111001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, he, to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word land at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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