This is an analysis of the poem Dirt Diggers that begins with:
The dirt diggers seek to smear.
Only to discover they uncover their own miseries....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 100010101011100 01011001110100 110101 11110110 01 11011010 0101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, to are repeated.
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- summary of Dirt Diggers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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