This is an analysis of the poem The Village Blacksmith that begins with:
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb Xcdcec dfgfhf higiai jbjeXe eeibeb Xbcecb XdXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 010101 0101101 0111001 101000101 111101 01011111 010101 01010101 111011 11011001 1111101 10110111 1110101 11111011 010111 1010100101 1010101 11010101 100101 11010101 110101 11010111 1100101 11111001 110101 11010111 110101 100010 1010101 010110101 100101 11110011 100111 10011111 011001 1010100 100111 11011101 110101 10010101 110101 11011101 1010111 11010101 110101 11010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, you, and, he, each are repeated.
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- summary of The Village Blacksmith;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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