This is an analysis of the poem The Old Cumberland Beggar that begins with:
I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;
And he was seated, by the highway side, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbeeXfeaegfbbhffgiejEkabejeaflfamXebdbmhEbnlhgodbgpaheqhgXdffdbddfbhhpfhhbnbbkhejqhlkfcrffefmfffXdgXbmlfhkfnbmjhbelgnrrkfhhfmbrshhlcgpbhgbmllffgliehtfheaigslheBtfeheffmBXbfomXhcelXXhfjobehXeafcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 198,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110011 1111010111 1011001100 1101001111 1111010111 111011011 1101010111 1101011001 11010010101 1101110111 11000111001 0101010001 0101010111 0101111001 1111010101 1101000101 1101000101 11010101010 1101101101 11001011101 0101010101 1011111111 1111111101 1101010101 1100010111 01001011001 1101010101 1111110101 0101111111 11111100101 100110001 10011010111 0111010101 1101010111 011010101 1101111111 011101001100 011000101 1010011011 0111110101 1011010011 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 0111010101 0111111101 1101011101 01010101001 0101010111 1011110101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011111 1101111011 01011100111 0110110011 1101011100 0110110101 0101011011 0111010101 1111010101 1001011111 0101010111 11010101111 11001110101 1110110101 1111001101 1101110011 0101010011 1110111101 11010110111 0100011101 1101000101 1101001111 0101110101 01000101100 011101001010 0100011001 1101111101 01001011101 11010110001 1110010101 0110011101 10110001010 1111111100 1111010101 0111010001 0100110101 1111000100 11000011101 0101011100 11110101001 1101111101 01001101001 0101110101 1011010100 1000110101 0101000101 01011101011 0101011101 1101001101 1111010100 1101100001 0101110 111 1101010101 1101010001 1100100101 01111101011 01100101010 10110010101 0111011111 10100000111 1111010011 0111110001 1111000101 1110111101 1101010011 1001100111 01001010111 1011000101 0111010101 0101001111 1101010101 0101010001 0101000101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010001 0011010101 0100010111 1111010101 1101010111 11010100100 1111010011 1101100101 0100011101 1101011100 0101010111 1101010011 1001101101 1001110101 1101010101 0011000101 1101000100 10001010101 1101010101 1111000101 1111111110 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1100011101 11010100111 1011111101 1011100101 1101011101 0011001001 0100010101 110101101010 1111010101 1101110101 0101111101 0111110101 10001011101 00101001010 1101111100 111101000100 0101001101 1111010101 1111110111 0100010101 1001011101 1101011101 1011010101 10001110100 10110100001 11011000100 1101011111 1101011101 00010010011 11010101000 1101110111 0101000111 1101000111 0111010011 1101110101 01000010101 1011010111 1011001101 11110111011 0101110101 0111100101 1011011100 1001010111 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 8576
- Average number of words per stanza: 1538
- Amount of lines: 198
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, he, her, of, your, to, their, him, let, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, his, who, and, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye is repeated).
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