This is an analysis of the poem O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs that begins with:

O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
With room for body and for spirit too, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaccbccccc ddXd eede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110011111 0111011101 1101110111 010100100111 11000010101 11000110110 1101011101 1100110101 1111011111 11110010101 1101111101 1101010001 11110101101 1101010011 1111110111 1100011111 11010101111 1101111111 1111010101 11111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you are repeated.

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