This is an analysis of the poem Machinist Talking that begins with:
I sit at my machine,
Hour long beside me Vera aged nineteen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bbc dde cceXeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101 10101110111 10011100101 011101 0101000101 1101110101 1110011 1101010001 00110001001 011111 0110111001 0101100101 110100 00110111011 10110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Machinist Talking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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