This is an analysis of the poem Star-Nosed Mole that begins with:
Mole, angel-dog of the pit,
digging six miles a night, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcXXbXcaXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1011001 110101101 11101 111101011 111001 11100110 111010010 11110011 1001001001 011011011001 1101101 11 111101111 1110111010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; no, your are repeated.
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