This is an analysis of the poem The Hammers that begins with:
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Frindsbury, Kent, 1786... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bbccdXeeefXgddghXcCdbdiijddcjdfieeXbkkXdddkdgdfbfaXldgdXedcX meddgggnnaaajddbXXkXbbedfdXokkppdfjXqXfcXXXefXkkXeee cffaeoXieerdbdXddcdbddmXffbgdXX X X XgdobdccscXXXXXXcmgeeXaXXeffdtcctdggdssrrdddmmadedessXsggfggfeXfddXsmiimkkXrXXssttddkkhhmdeeesskkmXXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,60,52,31,1,1,134,1,1,29,18,43,1,1,98,1,1,33,31,15,27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011 1 1 1 1011 1101110101 1101001010 1001101 10010101 101010101 11011111 110100100001 101101101 011 11011 1010110101 1101011101 10010 111010001 11 10111001101 1010 1111110111 10110100010 010111110010 0111 10110 101010 111 1010101 11101010 101110001 111010 101101 0101110101 11110 101110 111001 011010010011 1010 111110010 110100111111001 011110 110101001 1101000001101 101010101 1101001111 1100011111 1010011010 0110111101 10110110111 11111010 10011 10101 101101 010011110 1111110110 01 1101001 11111110011 1110010001110 011010110001 101110010 101101111 10110101101 1101010001001 101111010101001101 0111010111 1011001011 10101010101001 111011010101 110110010101 1111 111001010 10101 10111001101 111 11101110 11101110 11101101100 11111011 0111 101100011101 1010100001000011010 10100011 11101011 001001011 110101111010 1011111 1101001110 100011011010 111101010110 10101011110 101 1010110010 1001 0101100 0110101 110101010110 011101101 0111110111 111111010 0101011000 100111010100 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1110101010101010010 1111 01000100000101011111 11 1101 1 01011 010 1010011010 111 1011010100100100 0001010010101 1111110101 11100001101 111011010010 10101001010110101 101 010110 010110001 11 010010110010101 0100111010 11011001001001 10000010010011001 11 01010111001 10 111 010101001010 110001010 000111 1111101101 1100101 11101 11000100010 10101 0101111110110101 111 11 110011011100 1111111110111 1110101010011 10101101 110111011001 1111111 110011101 11 110101110111000110 11001100 1111 0101011 1111001 10111001 11111 111 110101 001 11010 111001010 1110010 11010010111101010 010010 1000111 10010001 0010101 11101100 0101000101 001 101010 110010 10100001 110111010 10111 1 1010111 10010 10101110111001 111011111 10110111 11 1010111 11001111101110 111101011011010 11010011 1101010110 10101 110111111 110110011100 1 111101011010 1010101101 1010000111 10101111 0111001 001100101110 111110110 1101011 0111011001010 111111010 01101001110 1010100000011 010101 101 001010101 101 1011 110110010 11001011111 1010111 111 1011 0001111011 101110011001 111 110 010101001010 1011111 11111110 111001 11111101 00101111010100 11110111 010100100 1010010 110 11010110111 111110110100 01010100101 10110101011 0100101101 1101110010 11011011 011000101 101010001 1110100101 101100110 0101110 11 11 111 1010111101 11001 11011 101001011101 1001011111 1 11110110001 10001 10001 11 1011 11100111 01011111000 101 0010101 10101001111101 1101010110 11011111 110111010101 001111101 1101011100110 101010111110 1110111101 1101001 111101001 1110101 101011111 101011011 010010101 1110100100 101110001000101111 01 1101010111 1 110011 111 101101 11 1010 100101000 11101110101 10011 1101000011 111010101101 11 010101010 10111010 111 11 0011111 11 0101111110 11 10011111 10010101011001010 1010101011 01 110101 10011101010 111001 00110110 11111110 01101010 1010101 010100110 011100 11010110010 100011101 11 1000101011011 11 1010110101101001001 011 1101010010110 101100110110 10001010 010011 100111010011 111 101 11001 110010100011 101010101110 01010100 10 10011110011010 10110100 100110 0110 0110 11010101001010 10111011010 111 1111001 1011010101010010 0110 1010110110 0010001 111 101 10101 11010110 1010101110 1100101011 11110001001 011110000110110110 110101011 1110 110010101010 1011010011110 10010100 110101101 11010001111 10101010010 111 101001100 1111110101110 010110111 11111101 11 010011010101110 1110101010011 00101 100100011 10011 10101 1010010101100 11101000 1111 11101 011010101 10101 1101000101 1001011001110 11 011110 11001000101 111100 1100 100100111101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 946
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 581
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tap, and, away, pull, swigg'd, of, ', pound, france, they, give, me, it, her, ding, to, coffins, coffin, your, strange are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bang, tap, all, two, the, and, bouquet, oil, pound, farewell, ding, or, clank, coffins, a, four, strange are repeated.
The author used the same word tap at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bang, sun, swigg'd, tap, ', it, carrousel, dong, coffin, men are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases bang, tap, gold, coffins connect the lines.
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- summary of The Hammers;
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