This is an analysis of the poem Agricultural, Implements And Machinery that begins with:

Poor laborers, they did sad bewail,
When the machine displaced the flail ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabB aacc ccdd eecc bBdd ffdd gghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010110 10010101 101011001 11000101 10001110 10111010 10100110 11010010 10111110 11101010 010010011 101010110 01111101 1010101 10101110 00101010 101011101 11000101 11111001 11010110 1010011100 111001110 110100101 11010101 01010101 0111101 1100101 010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; they, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Agricultural, Implements And Machinery;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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