This is an analysis of the poem Clinching The Bolt that begins with:
It needed just an extra turn to make the bolt secure,
A few more minutes on the job and then the work was sure;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011101010101 01110101110111 111000101110111 01111101010111 111101001110101 010101010100111 11011001110001 01010101011100 01001011011101 01110101110111 01011101110111 11010111110101 01111111001101 111101001010101 01110111110101 00111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 929
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, man, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase two connects the lines.
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