This is an analysis of the poem The Yearly Distress; Or, Tithing-Time At Stock In Essex that begins with:
Come, ponder well, for 'tis no jest,
To laugh it would be wrong;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede fgfg dada haha didi fcfc jXjX akak lclc mnmn dXXf amam jcjX hihi oeoe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 010101 01000101 010011 01110011 110001 11011101 110111 11010111 111101 11010101 1111001 11010111 010101 11110101 011100 01010011 010001 11111111 110101 11010101 010101 01010111 110101 11111111 110001 01010111 011011 10111101 110101 11101101 110101 11111101 010111 11111111 010111 01011111 0101101 11010111 001101 11010101 110101 11011011 110101 01111111 1101110 11001101 11010100 11010101 110111 01011111 110101 11011101 110111 11011111 110101 11110111 010111 11100111 110101 11010111 110111 01111101 110101 11010111 111111 11010101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he, and, of, one, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, one are repeated.
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