This is an analysis of the poem The Digger's Song that begins with:
Scrape the bottom of the hole: gather up the stuff,
Fossick in the crannies, lest you leave a grain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcCCdeed cXccXcCCfdggXd ffbfXfcCdbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000110101 10001011101 01 1010100110001 111000111111 1 1010101 1010101 1010101110001 10100010 10101010 01010101010001 10111010101101 10101011010 0 1010101010101 111010101010 101 1010101 1010101 101010111011 1 101111 100111 110111000100 01 101010110101 1010101010001 1111100111 111 1111010111010 1 1010101 1010101 1011101000101 1111101 1111101 1110100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Digger's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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