This is an analysis of the poem In Nunhead Cemetary that begins with:
It is the clay what makes the earth stick to his spade;
He fills in holes like this year after year;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef dada agagg ghhh ddi jjXibbfefb b gdgd gkgk lalaal lggggl iaiallal aaamdmddmXggbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,3,10,1,4,4,6,6,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 000111011001 1101101101 0101110101101 111100101 101110111101 00100011101 0101001111 0110111101 101010001010 0100110101 110011001101010 11101111101 100101001 1010110111 0101011101 10101000101 1011011001 11011111 0111011101 01111100 0111011111 00101101111 111111010101 010101101010010101 101111101111111101 11111111 01111101 0011100101 11010101 101101101 00111010 00110111 11011101 101000101 11111101010101 101111010 011101 0101011101110101 10111 10111111 01011101 101011001 111111 1111101111101 110111 1111111101 1111 1110111111 11110111 11111111 1111111101 1110111111 11111111 11011110111 1111101101 11110101 01110011 11010011 0110101101 01100101 1010010101 01011111 110110001 11110001 110101110 110111111111 11111 11110101 11011111 11010111 1111010101 010111 11010101 11111101 11111100101 1101 1111111101 0100011111 101110101 111101 110101110101 0111011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, have, your, you, burn, not, we, to, here are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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