This is an analysis of the poem The Miner that begins with:
Beetling rock, with roar and smoke
Break before my hammer-stroke! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeDD ffbX ccbb ccXX eeXX ffcf ccDD gghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1011101 10111110 1110101 00101001 1010111 10111010 10111110 1010101 11101001 10101110 00110010 1110101 10101011 10111010 11111110 1110101 0010101 11111010 11111010 1001111 0001111 100100010 111010101 1010001 10001101 11101010 10100101 1111011 1010001 00111010 10111110 1010111 10101001 10101110 00110010 1011101 1010101 10101110 10100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1348
- Average number of words per stanza: 233
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Miner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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