This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread that begins with:
Even the shrewd and bitter,
Gnarled by the old world's greed, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdedeXbdbfgXgfbXbXcfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110 110111 1001010 100101 1011010 101101 00101010 10111011 0111011000 1100100 1110110 010101 01001010 0111101 11010011 100111 01001010 110111 1101010 110101 1001010 0100101 1101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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