This is an analysis of the poem The Chimney-Sweeper's Song that begins with:
Hath Christmas furr'd your Chimneys,
Or have the maides neglected,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcaXa Xded dcecfeXe g fbfbahah g aXeXfXXX g XeiebdXd g adXXiXXX g cceXXjfj Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 11010010 1101101101 0100010 1101110 1111010 011101011 0111010 111101111 1101010 11011111 11110110 11110110 0101110 01011011 11011010 1111011 1100110 010101111 0100110 10111100 0101111 0101010 1111111111 1111110 1001010 1111110 111100101 1101010 11111100 0101010 1101010 01010101 1101111 1111011 1111010 11011101 1111010 11111100 11110010 1110111 001100011 0110010 0101010 1101111 10011101 0101011 11111100 1101110 11010111 10110111 1111110 1101110 1111010 1111001011 1101010 10111100 1011010 1101110 111011111 1111110 0111110 1111110 110011101 1101010 10111100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
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