This is an analysis of the poem Solid Is The Ground that begins with:
Beneath my feet I have found,
Solid is the ground....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcdbd abbaccdXa abXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111 10001 0110101 1010001 01010011 0101010010 1001101001 1011001001 110010101 01111111 0100101100010 0010111011010 00100101101 110101111100 010110111 11011011 110101 11010101011 1110000110 1010110111 01011110101 00100111111 1110001110001 11001001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, my are repeated.
The author used the same word beneath at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Solid Is The Ground;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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