This is an analysis of the poem The Scissors-Grinder that begins with:
The old man had his box and wheel
For grinding knives and shears.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedfGbg aXXdbghg dbcbhdhdXfifeXdX XGiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,16,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 110111 11010101 110101 11101011 111101 11110011 010101 01111101 011101 111111001 011111 110111001 0101010 1110101110 110101 11111101 110111 111101010 010011 111111001 010111 01010101 110101 11011111 1100111 01010101 010101 01011101 111101 11110111 010111 11111101 110101 01011101 11010100 11010101 011101 11010111 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Scissors-Grinder;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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