This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Pitcher that begins with:
Accursed be the hour of that sad day
The careless potter put his hand to thee,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cdcd cbXb eXeXXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10000100111 0101010101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110110 1111110111 1110001011 01101111000 1111111111 0111011001 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111010100 1111011101 11001111101 1101110100 0101110101 1111011000 1011111101 1111011100 1101111101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, thee, thou are repeated.
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