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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