This is an analysis of the poem The Workhouse Clock that begins with:
An Allegory
There's a murmur in the air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcbebe fgfgghgh aiaaiaaiijjji kkhh lhhl jgjjjjghgghmmihhihi cjccXXkkecce bebedddeXddjjjhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,13,4,4,19,12,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010 1010001 1101001 0100101 0101001 110101 0100101 1101010001 0100101 111101 0101001 010111001 101011 101010 0111011 110101010 1101101 1111010 0111011 0111110 0101001010 1001011 1101000010 100111010 1010101 1010101 101011011 10011111 110010101 1001001001 10101101 101001101 010111011 010010101 01001010 01110100 100111011 1111110 11110101 1100101001 101011011 101111011 11111011 111011001 10101001 0101001 110101011 111001011 10111 1110101 110100101 111101 110111101 10011101 0100101 110100101 01101011 10100101 111101 1010111 1100110001 1100110 10101110 10100111 10100101 100101 10010101 11010101 0101111 110111 1111001 1100100111 1111011 11110011 110100101 0010101101 10000101 1101010 11011010 0100101010 100111010 1100101010 11011010 111111101 110010101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, stop are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Workhouse Clock;
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- idea of the verse;
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