This is an analysis of the poem The One-Legged Man that begins with:
Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald;
Squat orchard trees and oasts with painted cowls; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101110101 0101010111 1101011111 1111010101 010001100101 1101111101 0100000101 1001111101 1001010001 1101010101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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