This is an analysis of the poem Subjected Earth that begins with:

Walking in the flat Oxfordshire fields
Where the eye can find no rock to rest on but little flints...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXbXcdee cfgXbbXafhhfgXebcfcdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011001 10111110111101 100110101010 10011101101 01011011101010 1001000111110 100110100100 1011100111 1100101110010001001 101000101 1000101011010 0110011 11101101001011 110011101 011010110101011 111 110100101 11011011010100 11010011010 10100101001 110010111010100 1101001111010 0101110010111011 111111001001 11001010010100 010011101101 10010011111001 110010100011 10110001100001 010100110011 00100100101010010 110100111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 791
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, be, its are repeated.

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