This is an analysis of the poem The Diggers that begins with:

Bristling Billy the porcupine,
A person that nobody liked,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abaabcc dcdXee ececcc dedeXX fXfXXX AgagXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100101 01011111 100111111 110100101 10101101 101001101110 11111110010 10100111 1111001010 1010111111 1101101100 1011111101 100101100 100100111 0111111110 011100101 111001101010 01001011010 11111111110 11011111 101001010 100100101 0001111010 1111111010 11101011111 010111101 1110101110 110111101 111010011100 111100011 11001011111 100100101 01011111 100110101 100101 1110101111 0101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • 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; he, ' are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Diggers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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