This is an analysis of the poem The Goldsmith that begins with:
This job’s the best I’ve done.’ He bent his head
Over the golden vessel that he’d wrought. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba ccccXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111101 1001010111 0111010101 0001010111 1111110110 1101100101 0101010111 1111010001 0111000101 01110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and is repeated.
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