This is an analysis of the poem Ant Hill that begins with:

Black ants have made a musty mound
My purple pine tree under,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacababdXdX eXecdfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 1101110 11110001 0100010 11111101 0111010 11110101 0101010 11111101 1101110 11110111 0101010 110110011 01110100 111010111 11111100 11110101 0111100 11110111 0101110 01011101 1110010 01011101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you, their are repeated.

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  • summary of Ant Hill;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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