This is an analysis of the poem A Worn-Out Pencil that begins with:
Welladay!
Here I lay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb caadd eeeac eeefX eeeee aaXff ggghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 111 1111101 1110001 0110101 100 101 1111100 1010001 11111001 111 101 1111101 1010110 1000100 001 101 0010101 1010101 0110101 111 101 1011101 1010101 1001100 101 111 1110000 1011111 1011101 111 110 1010101 111101 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Worn-Out Pencil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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