This is an analysis of the poem No Buyers that begins with:

A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs
Labours along the street in the rain:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbacc aaddaebeb fbbafaaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011011011 100101001 000101001001001 0110100100101 10101101001 1001111101 100111001101 1010111 0100100100100101 1100100100100111 11101101101 1100110111011 0111011 010010101 110111001001 0101101111 110010000101 010110101 101001 1111011101 1100111110101 11111001 1100101101 011010101 11111101100 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, with are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of No Buyers;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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