Poem Analysis of A Shaft Of Bees by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem A Shaft Of Bees that begins with:

More callous than a dig
More back-breaking than a slam...

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Rhyme scheme: Xa bcdX eXfgebe dcbh edabbffdXhge
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,7,4,12,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110101 1110101 10101110111 10101110111101011 1011111011 100101110011 101101111101011101 101111000110101011100 11111011010011111 1110110101010110 101110101 011111010101111 1110100111111 10111101010101101 011111010100101101 0101001111110010101 101111111010101010110 11101 111010 01010100 1101 0010 101011 110111 1111101001010 010010 10 0110011110 1
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
Average number of words per stanza: 46
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, than, as, have, they, us, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words more, until are repeated.

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A Shaft Of Bees by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

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