This is an analysis of the poem Mummy Wheat that begins with:

LAID close to Death, these many thousand years,
In this small seed Life hid herself and smiled;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba bccb dbbd aeea fggf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110100 0011110111 1111111101 11011101011 1101110111 1011001111 1011011101 1101000101 1111110101 0001010111 1111111111 1101000101 1101111111 0101110101 1101010001 0101111101 1101111111 1101101101 11111111011 1001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us is repeated.

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