This is an analysis of the poem In The Womb that begins with:
STILL rests the heavy share on the dark soil:
Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011011 0101110111 0111000101 0100010101 0100100101110 1001110101 1001000101 0101010111 1111011110 1101011101 1001010101 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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