This is an analysis of the poem What The Coal-Heaver Said that begins with:
The moon's an open furnace door
Where all can see the blast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaXa XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 111101 11001101 011111 11010111 110101 10111111 111111 10011101 0101001 10010100 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 is repeated.
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