This is an analysis of the poem For All The Land To See: A Song Of The Tools that begins with:
THE CROSS-CUT and the crowbar cross, and hang them on the wall,
And make a greenhide rack to fit the wedges and the maul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXb ccddXb eeddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110111110101 11010101010101 01110101011111 011111010111001 0111111111001 01011101110101 01110101010111 011101111111100 01100101010001 01000111011111 011101011110100 10011101111101 11111110110111 11110001111111 11000111111011 11011101111111 01011111110100 11111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, axe, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the 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.
The poet repeated the same word see at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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