This is an analysis of the poem Sledgehammer that begins with:
No time should anyone today take,
For horse play, hide and seek....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbddXdbX cddceXeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100011 111111 11110101 101 110011110 1100101001 01001101 111110 0111010 0101111010 0110111000 010001011111 0100010011001 1111001 10100010001 0010110001 10001 101001 0100010101011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sledgehammer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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