This is an analysis of the poem His Shield that begins with:
The pin-swin or spine-swine
(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabb cadcad XXdXXd XdXXda XeXXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 010010011010101 01011000001 11011101011101 011011 1010101 111111 1101010111001 010001010101 101010101010011 110011 0101101 1011100 100010010011 11110101001 11000011101110 111011 1010101 010000 1010101110001 1001000100 10111011101110 101101 0100101 110001000100 1111101001101 101011010101100 1100110110100110 110101 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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.
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