This is an analysis of the poem Hardcastle Crags that begins with:

Flintlike, her feet struck
Such a racket of echoes from the steely street,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababa cdddc efefe bgbgb Xhchc hbhbd ddddX dididXababa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10011 101001000101 100111001 11111101101 01011 01101001 010011100 10101101101 1101100101010 10001 0011001 100110111 110110111 100101011101 01010 01100101 1010110001 01111011 0110100110111 10101 110100100 011100101 00101101010 00100111011101 0110010 10110001 10101001101 001101010010 0011010101111 1111 101110 01110101 100111110 11010001100111 111 101111 01010111 1101100111 10010010111 01011 010101 0011110101 01110111 01011111101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Hardcastle Crags;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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