This is an analysis of the poem To The Men Of The Mines that begins with:

WE SPECKED as boys o’er worked-out ground
By littered fiat and muddy stream,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdccd ededcecce dfdfgegge ehehdiddi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111 110101101 11011101 110101001 01011001 1101001 11011101 01111111 11010101 11010101 11010111 110101001 01011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 111000101 11010101 110011111 10010101 01010101 11010101 011100101 11111111 11010111 01011100 11010111 01010111 011101001 01110101 11110111 110011101 11010111 11000111 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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