This is an analysis of the poem On A Watch Made By A Blacksmith that begins with:

A Vulcan and a Venus seldom part.
A blacksmith never us'd to filinge art... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaaXXccXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101010101 0111010101 0101111101 1101111101 010100101101 10010011101 0110011011 0101111001 1101010101 1111010101 11011100101 0101010101 1111011011 1101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

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