This is an analysis of the poem Of The Mole In The Ground that begins with:

The mole's a creature very smooth and slick,
She digs i' th' dirt, but 'twill not on her stick;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001010111 11111111101 1111010101 1101111101 10101001101 0001111101 1101010101 1101000111 1101111100 1111111111 1111011111 11110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, nor are repeated.

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