This is an analysis of the poem Sappers that begins with:
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
("It's all one," says the Sapper),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaaB ccd ccd eed ffd Xad ggd Xcd ccd hhd eed hXd iid iid hhd jjd hhd hhd iBikkB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101001 1011001010 0110100101 010010101 001110010 101101111001 1100100101 001001001100 11001001101 11011111011 01101100 101011011111 11001011001 1101100 101101101001 11001001011 11101001011100 101001011011 101001001011 0101100 11011001111 01101011001 1111100 11111011010 111111101001 00101100 11101001101 01101111101 1111100 11101001101 01101001001 11111100 11100101011 101011111001 0101100 11101111001 11001111101 0101100 11011011111 101011001001 10111100 11101101111 11110001001 11111100 11011011111 111011001011 1001100 11011011011 101111001011 1111100 101101001001 11001011011 1111100 01001101101 11101111011 1111100 111001111001 1011001010 11011100111 11110100101 010010101 001110010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 62
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, their, an', they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, an' are repeated.
The author used the same words when, they, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines engineer, engineers are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sappers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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