This is an analysis of the poem Elegy With A Chimneysweep Falling Inside It that begins with:
Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboard
Compose the dark, compose ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX a ac X dd X abb e fX X Xg f ga gch hi bg c hXd ic gg i h ag iX Xe a b af Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,2,1,2,3,2,2,1,3,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010011 010101 00100101011101 11101011 0011010100101110 011101001001 10111110001010 1100101010100 11011110 110010001001 101001011010010 11100101 100011010010 0111101101 1101000101001 011010111010 111101 10101000100110011 110101101010 10101001 0110100111 0011011011 011011 101010101110 101111011 101101011 0010110 101100011101010 01101010 1010111010010 01001010100101001 111010001 0101001111010 00101011011010 0011111 10101001011 01001001010010010 0101010110010 110010001010011 1011101011011 1100110100011 0101011001110010 1101000101 100010110010001 1110100101 10011010011010 111010010010 00110011001 001011111011 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; would, its, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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