This is an analysis of the poem For The Poor that begins with:
When Hagar found the bottle spent
And wept o'er Ishmael, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeX gfgf haha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 111010 01000111 010001 11100111 011101 01010101 010101 01110101 010001 10101010111 101010100 10110111 111101 11010101 100101 01011101 110111 11111101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; be is repeated.
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