This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Builder that begins with:
I sink my piers to the solid rock,
And I send my steel to the sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdcdee fbfbff gdgdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 11111001 1111010111 110101 111101101 011110111 1100111101 10101101 100101111 1000101 1010101110 1100110100 101101101 1011101 1101101101 1011101 111110101 010101101 1010110111 1101111 110011101 1101111 110101101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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