This is an analysis of the poem Primacy Of Mind that begins with:
Above the glow of molten steel,
The roar of furnace, forge, and shed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXXX caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 10000101 110101001 11111110 01010110 11000101 10011111 11110101 01010101 11010011 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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