This is an analysis of the poem The Magnet And The Churn that begins with:
A MAGNET hung in a hardware shop,
And all around was a loving crop... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeedXXX bbXXffcceedggd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100111 110110101 010110111 10011111 1110010111 111100111 010111111 1110110101 01010 10010 10101 10111 01110 1101010 110110101 010101111 0111101011 01001011010 010110111 110011101 1101100101 1010111101 10010 10010 101101 11010 11010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word churn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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