This is an analysis of the poem A Spade that begins with:
Precursor of our woes, historic spade,
What dismal records burn upon thy blade!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbbccddeeaabbbeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100110101 1100110111 1111010001 0100010111 0011010101 1111010101 0111010001 0101001101 1111010101 0101110101 11111001111 0110010111 0111010101 1101010101 1001010001 1101110101 1101010101 1100110101 1001110001 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 110101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 971
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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