This is an analysis of the poem Disappointed. that begins with:
AN old man planted and dug and tended,
Toiling in joy from dew to dew;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccadXdeefgfgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011110 10010101 0111101010 110101101 11110101101 110111101 110101110 10010101 01010011100 010100111 10101100101 1100101101 0111001010 10010111 11001001010 111100111 10110100101 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 731
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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