This is an analysis of the poem Industrial Discontent that begins with:
As time rolled on the whole world came to be
A desolation and a darksome curse;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc ddddeX fbfbdd gagaff ehehhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011100 0101010101 1111110111 0011010101 11110101010 01010100010 1111010101 1001010101 1101110101 0101110101 010111010010 0001000110 1101111101 0101110101 1101110111 1011010101 11111101010 01111101010 1111110101 0101110011 10111101001 1101111111 0101010101 111110101 1101011000 0101010111 0101011011 0101011111 011101001010 11010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; her is repeated.
The author used the same word 'the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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