This is an analysis of the poem The Builders that begins with:
Not here the grace of the sonnet's flow,
The blithe ballade and the smooth rondeau,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ddbX eecc aacc ccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110100101 010110101 01011011 10100100101 110101001 0011100101 010100101 010110101 0101001001 100110101 010101101 0011110111 100101111 100110111 111110101 010010111 011110111 0010101101 010100111 10111110101 010110101 0011110111 011101111 1100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, centuries are repeated.
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- summary of The Builders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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