This is an analysis of the poem After Working Sixty Hours Again For What Reason that begins with:

The best job I had was moving a stone
from one side of the road to the other....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeeafggccbahgciXfjikgdlggehlakhgXXjcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111001 0110010010 00100011010 0101111100 101111001 11110010101 11011001 0101010010 1001111001 1010111101 101101010 0101011010 1111010 01010010010 110101001 0010101 1001010101 111010100 11011010 11100010 10100101101 0101111110 11110011 010100001 1010011000 10111001 0010111 110010111 111111001 1101101 10110101 101101010 00011110 011000101000 0101000101 101101111 11111001 011011101 010001001 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of After Working Sixty Hours Again For What Reason;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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