This is an analysis of the poem Cardiac that begins with:
A mattock high he swung;
I watched him at his toil;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff XcXcbb dedecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 111101 010101 110101 111111 0101 010111 110001 111101 1111 110011 1111 111101 111101 110011 111101 110111 1101 111111 110101 111101 110101 110101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Cardiac;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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