This is an analysis of the poem The Diggers that begins with:
The diggers are digging, and digging deep,
They’re digging and singing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacddcc ebebecffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101101 110110 1101 110110110110 0101101001 11001011111 10101111101 1110111111 111111011 1111111111 01011011001 110110 11111 111111011110 11011001001 10101111011 11011111111 1111111111 0111011011 111111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, digging, they, re, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Diggers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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