This is an analysis of the poem The Second Whip Explains that begins with:
Now, gatherin' 'ounds is a job I like
W'en the winter day draws in, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcXebeXfgfghchXiaXaijijkdkXhdhdkhkhadaXilil
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100100111 1010110 1111111001 1101101 11001101101 10101101 111101111 101010101 1100100111 10111101 1010100101 10100101 1110110101 10110111 000111101 00101101 10111101011 0010111 1101110111 11111101 1010010111 00111001 1011110101 1010111 11101001001 1011111 0111111101 01110111 0111010111 1011111 111101111 10111011 11111101110 10100111 1111010011010 1111111 0011101111 10110111 10110101011 101101001 111001111101 1010101 1111111001 1111111 1110011010101 1100111 01011101001 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1856
- Average number of words per stanza: 377
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words w'en, if, an' are repeated.
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