This is an analysis of the poem Spear Thistle that begins with:
Where the broad sheepwalk bare and brown
[Yields] scant grass pining after showers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb cbcbbb adadcc eaeadd eeeeaa fefegg eeeedd adaXhh gagaaaXbbbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 111101010 11110111 01010111010 1011010101 0101010101 1100010111 110010101110 1001010101 11110111110 10011101010 11010001010 01010111 11010101 11010101 01011001 10010101 11010101 01000101 11011001 00010101 11111101 11111101 00010101 01011111 01010011 00011111 11011101 11010101 01110101 01110101 11010101 11010101 01001101 11010101 01000101 01010111 10011101 11010101 11010001 11011111 11110101 01010101 11010101 11110101 10110100 100100101 11010101 01010101 01010101 110101001 01010101 11010001 11111101 11111101 01011101 110100101 01010101 11011101 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flowers is repeated).
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