This is an analysis of the poem Blades that begins with:
SOJOURNER, set down
Your skimming wheel;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdad eabcbbcbfeeeefXagb ffhhiiXga jffhXeehhjaaX jjaa X ggee kX lliihhb biie eddXkkke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,9,13,4,1,4,2,7,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011 1101 1001 11101 1011 1101 1101 11101 1010101 10011111 101 101111011 111101001 1111100 1101101101 110010111 10110101 11011101 11100101 110111101 11011101 010110101 1010 1011 1011 01001 11110101 11110111 10111100 01011111 11100111 011000101 11001100 010011101 101111101 10010111 110011111 10100100101 11010110 11111100 010100101 010010101 10111111 0101001001 1011111 10110011110101 010101 010110101 111110001 111110101 1100110101 110010101 11010111110 111111111 1110111111 100001 10101 10110 11010 101010101 1110101111 1100100101 1010100101 01101111 1010101001 010110101 11110101 10111101 1010101 01011101 11111101 0110110111 11110101 1001110 01010 01010 01010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, he, of, one, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, all, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knows, daughter are repeated).
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- summary of Blades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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