This is an analysis of the poem Root Cellar that begins with:
Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch,
Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcccbacXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101101 1110101011001 11011 10010001001 1111010111001 1101001 11111 1011101 110111011001 101111 1001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Root Cellar;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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