This is an analysis of the poem The Workbox that begins with:

See, here's the workbox, little wife,
That I made of polished oak.'... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab XcXc dede fgfg bgbg hfhX iiiX jXjX eceXXijij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010101 1110101 110100101 110111 11001100 100111 11000100 1111101 110001101 1010111 11110101 101111 110101101 01111 01011001 110101 11110111 010101 11110111 011001 111111111 110111 11110111 111011010 11111011 11101101 1111111001 110101 11111101 011111 011100101 11000010 11011101 110101 01110101 111000 11010111 011101 101111101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Workbox;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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