To The Spade Of A Friend (An Agriculturist) by William Wordsworth: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To The Spade Of A Friend (An Agriculturist) that begins with:

COMPOSED WHILE WE WERE LABOURING TOGETHER IN HIS PLEASURE-GROUND
SPADE! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a baba cccc dada efeX aaaa ghgh fgfg ifif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010001000101 10110011001 1111011101 1101010011 1111010101 1101001101 1111010101 1101010111 01001010101 1101010001 1100010101 1100010111 1100110001 1101110101 01100101001 10110111001 01100110100 1101011111 1001011111 1101010101 01010101001 0101110101 1101110001 1011000111 1100010100 1011010101 10110001001 1111110101 11010011111 01110000101 1110010110 10111111001 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • 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.

  • 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 and is repeated.

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