This is an analysis of the poem Songs In A Cornfield that begins with:
A song in a cornfield
Where corn begins to fall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdece Feeeee geXeFhghegegigig bjhj hkHkLXLXLXLXjaaaXamkHX mbibmaaama leXe ggeeg ggeeg ggeeX aLdlmLcl Xmmm nnnn ffff oooX ecgcebXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,16,4,22,10,4,5,5,5,8,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 110101 110110 101101 11010 11011 10100101 101001 10110 11111 1101011 1101 010111 01001 0111010 10101 110101 11011 10110 11111 011010 11001 11101 111110 11101 111010 01111 11010 01111 111010 11010 0010110 10100 111010 101011 110101 1010110 11011 1001 10110 1001 10110 1001 10110 1001 10110 10010 110101 110111 110111 10101100 1111 101101 111111 1010110 1101110 01001101 110111 01011101 011101 11110111 111111 01011101 111111 11111001 110100 1010111 110101 1010101 110101 11010 11110 10101 11101 11101110110 11010 11010 11101 11101 01101010110 10010 11110 11111 10111 11100110010 110100101 010101 01110111 111111 01110101 010101 11011101 111111 1010111 1010111 1011111 101 1111111 1010111 1111111 111 1011101 1100111 1110111 111 1011101 1100111 1110101 111 01101 101010 011010 101010 011011 111011 1110101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 125
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; reaping, sing, he, to, summer, wheat, and, swallow, cold are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, sing, and, the, lost, all, cold are repeated.
The author used the same words 'there, 'is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word swallow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase reaping connects the lines.
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