This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's Forge that begins with:
He lies on his back, the idling smith,
A lazy, dreaming fellow is he; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAaaaa Bcdddc dBEeeb EdfffX fAggga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101001 010101001 010110101 1110101001 101011111 010010101 01000110101 010010101 010011101 1011111111 110110101 100010111 101110111 01000110101 110010101 111100101 110101100 011110101 110010101 110010111 101100101 101101101101 0100101101 1010111110 101100101 010101001 110110111 111011101 111110101 1010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Poet's Forge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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