This is an analysis of the poem Muckers that begins with:
Twenty men stand watching the muckers.
Stabbing the sides of the ditch ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaaaXX Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 1001001 11110 10010110 1011010111 1011110 01110 010111001 1110100111 0010101 1101001001 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ten is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines job is repeated).
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