This is an analysis of the poem The Womb that begins with:
Up from the evil day
Of wattle and of woad,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcccc dedefcfc gbgbcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 010101 011101 111001 100101 010101 110111 0101 010101 1101001 111101 111100 010001 110111 010101 0111 110101 110101 010001 110000 110101 100101 011101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 The Womb;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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