This is an analysis of the poem Excavate that begins with:
A people who have taken effective action,
To impede with a guarantee......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXXcdde cceXdcXdXX X c aX ee XXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,1,1,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111001010 00100101 101101001010 01001001111 001111000100101 111011001110000 1111101011 10100011010011 1000101101 10110100101 010001001110010 0100100100110100 1110100 11010001011010100 101010110111 01011101100100 00100011101101 10100110101 10110110101 110001010101 110111110101 1111101111100 1101 10011110 100010101010111 1111101 111010111111101 1 11010101 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Excavate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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