This is an analysis of Digging by Seamus Heaney.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Ab ccb Xdef gXhge cb dXXhdXbf hXca AXg
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,4,5,2,8,4,3,
- Metre: 01110111 01111101 1011001101 1011001001 11010111 10101010100 111110001 1001010111 11110 0111010101 010011110010 110111100111 0101010111 101110011 1101111001 11011 1110111001 1101011101 1110110010 101000101101 010110101 1011010101 1001010111 100110 011001110111 0101011011 1101010011 1111010110 01110111 0111 1100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
my, of
