This is an analysis of the poem The Manor Farm that begins with:

THE rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills
Ran and sparkled down each side of the road ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdXdbXXeaecfXX afXXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111001011 1110111001 1001010001 11110111001 1011011101 1101010101 1111001101 1111110001 0101010111 11110011100 0111010111 0110010101 0111111101 11010111111 11100101001 100111001011 0101010101 0101110111 0110110101 1110011110 1001001100 01001111011 1101111101 01010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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 author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Manor Farm;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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