This is an analysis of the poem A Wanderer that begins with:
When Watkin shifts the burden of his cares
And all that irked him in his bound employ, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba acXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010001 1111100101 1101010101 1101001101 10001010011 1111110111 1101110101 1001110011 01010101010 0101010101 10010001100 11010001001 1111111111 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.
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