This is an analysis of the poem Pennarby Mine that begins with:
Pennarby shaft is dark and steep,
Eight foot wide, eight hundred deep. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXc dddXecc bbffXcc eedXXXc ddggdcc cchhXdd iieeXccXggggdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 1111101 10101101 11010101 1011 10010 1101011001 010101001 10110101 1001011001 0010110110 1001 1011 1011101001 10010111 10101111111 101101001 01100101111 1011 11101 11001001001 11111111 010110101 1010100101 111011110 1011 110010 1101011001 11101001 11010101 1110110101 1010101 11011 111011 0111001001 110101100 1110111111 001110101 010110101 1001 00111 1011011001 1110101 1111001001 11010111 11110101 11001 1101 1100111001 1111111000 111101101 11111111 10011101 1101 01101 111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, him, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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