This is an analysis of the poem Building that begins with:
Brick by brick the Masons builded
Till the highest cross was gilded ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbXcdd eefffccgg bbaaabbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101110 0010001 1010111 1111111 1110111 10101010 10101001 00101001 10111110 111001010 1010001 1010001 1011101 11111110 11101010 1111111 1010001 11101110 10101010 0011111 1110111 10010111 11111010 10101010 1110111 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, must, on are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Building;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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