This is an analysis of the poem In The Workshop that begins with:
ONCE in the Workshop, ages ago,
The clay was wet and the fire was low.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bXbc Xdd Xdcd Xdd XdcX Xda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,4,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001 0111101011 1111111001 1001001 11010101 10101101 111100 11011 1100111111 111100101 1110111 110010101 10100101 111100 11011 1100111111 110111001 110111 010110101 1110101 111100 1111 1100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of In The Workshop;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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