This is an analysis of the poem Three Men Of Truro that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a a XX bcbcddcbcbefefefegg bhbhXfhihijj ibiXjj jXjbff X a kX jjjj jXjX cbcbcjcj jbjb lblb cbcbaeaae X h kX bbb mXmggg eeec XXX Xhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,19,12,6,6,1,1,2,4,4,8,4,4,9,1,1,2,3,6,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11001 11001010110110 0100101 0101110101 1101011101 1101110101 11010110011 10110010111 0101110111 10010011101 01010100101 11101110101 0111010101 0101010101 1101001011 1 01010101001 1111011111 1001110111 1111010001 1101010100 1111110101 1111111111 1001101101 1111011111 1101101101 1001001101 1101110101 1111110101 1111001101 1001010101 01011010101 1001010111 1111111101 1111110101 1111000101 1001111101 1111011101 11011101001 0101110111 0101110101 10010101011 1011010101 1011010101 1111110011 1101110101 1 011 10100001100010 0101 1011010101 1110101 1111011100 100110 1100110101 11010111 1101010101 111110 1101010111 0100111 1101100101 011101 1100110101 01110111 1101001101 100101 101111111110 11010101 10110101010 111101 0101111001 01110101 1111110101 110011 10111111101 01111101 0101010101 110101 1101110101 010001001 11010010101 1111100101 010101 1 11001 0110010 11 10100010 10101010 100111110 10101110 11101010 10111110 10101011 10101011 11101111 10101010 101110010 11111010 1111100 10101100 10101100 10100100 11001100 10101010 11000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • 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, no, we, and, with, to, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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