This is an analysis of the poem The Hard that begins with:
Here on the Hard, you're welcome to pull up and stay;
there's a flat fee of a quid for parking all day....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa aX bc Xc de dd cbXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111001111 101100111011 110010011101 101110010101 110011011001 100100101111 111001000101 011111001101 110011010111 111100111001 011011001011 011010111001 011111101001 101011111101 100101110111 001101011101 100101111011 110011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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