This is an analysis of the poem The Builders that begins with:
Staggering slowly, and swaying
Heavily at each slow foot's lift and drag,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaabbabcdccceeffgegbbdeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 1001111111 0111000111 110111 0111110101 111101 1101001101 0100111 1101010 01101101 0011010101 1111010111 1110111101 101101001 10011101 1101011111 11011001101 11010001010 11000111010 010111 00100110010 1001111101 011001 1111011 10010100001 010101 0011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1067
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Builders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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