This is an analysis of the poem The Three Foot Rule that begins with:
When I was bound apprentice, and learned to use my hands,
Folk never talked of measures that came from foreign lands:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xabb ccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010110111 1101010110101 1001010110101 11001011111101111 11010001101000 11010000101111 1001010110101 111111111111111111 01000100110001 1101010110001 11010101110101 1110101111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, some, of, by, i'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rule at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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