This is an analysis of the poem Etching that begins with:
Two and thirty is the ploughman.
He's a man of gallant inches,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXa bXXXXcaX caXXXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 10101010 10101110 101 10101110 10111110 1010111 101 10101010 10100110 1010001 101 10111010 10100010 10111011 110 10101010 11111010 00101111 101 11101010 10101010 0010101 001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Etching;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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