This is an analysis of the poem On The Mantelpiece that begins with:
A thousand years went to her making,
A thousand years of experiments in pastes and glazes. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXXX XbadceXXXe abdXXXbXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010010 01000010001110 1111 0101000101001011001 01010100 10010110 101100 1100100 11010111111 010011111010 110101110011 111100 11111 1110111 01101111 1010010101100100 1010010101 10011101010 10100101 11 11101010 010100111 11110100 111001000101011010 101011011110 1001000100010 1111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of On The Mantelpiece;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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