This is an analysis of the poem Robert Browning that begins with:
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole,
In winding graveyard pathways underground,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XcddcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 0101111101 11010010111 1101110101 0010010101 1111010001 1101010101 0101010111 0101010111 01010101110 0101011101 0111010100 01010101010 0101011000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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