This is an analysis of the poem Digging that begins with:
What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,
Letting down two clay pipes into the earth?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 1011110001 0111010010 0111001100 0101110100 1101010011 0111100101 1101010101 0101010101 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Digging;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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