This is an analysis of the poem Bixby's Landing that begins with:
They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down
here in an iron car...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbXXXXdefgehiecfgffghfdXifXi Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 101101 1011010110 11110010010 0100101 11110001001 10101101010 011101 1010111110 100 1111010100 10110010 0100111100101 010010110010 1111010 101001101 01111011100 1001010 11010101011 10110010010 101001010 11011101100 01010111111 111001 1011001010 110100010111 11010010 1101011100100 110110110011 1011100 11011011110 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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.
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- summary of Bixby's Landing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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