This is an analysis of the poem There Was Earth that begins with:
There was Earth in them, and
they dug....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cadd XeXb fXfbXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 11 1111111 1111111110111 11111010 11111010 11111101 011101011 11101110 11 110101101 1110010 111110101 10101111 1111111111 1001011110 111111111011 1111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, they, dug, heard, there, came, o, dig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, who, there are repeated.
The author used the same word they 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 this is repeated).
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- summary of There Was Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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