This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Calendar - September that begins with:
Harvest awakes the morning still
And toils rude groups the valleys fill... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiiXigg ddggjjiiggjjiikkddjjXieekkiicclliXjjaallmmffii ccaaggggiijjffXiggkknnaaXj mmeeoolllljjeejjhhllnnjjee ffmmiijjll ggaaicii iieennXfaallppXilljjeeXieeeeiiaaiippee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,46,26,26,10,8,38,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000101 11110101 01001101 01110101 11011101 11010001 01010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 010100101 111100101 01010101 01001010 11100010010 11011101 01011101 11011110 11010111 11001101 10000101 11010101 11110101 10110001 11011101 10011101 01110011 11010101 11110101 010101001 11011101 01010001 01010101 01011101 110011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 10110101 010011101 10010101 11110101 11000101 01110101 1010101 1010101 11010101 10100111 1110101 11010111 11011101 01011101 01110101 11010101 11111101 1010111 1110101 11011101 101110101 01110101 11010111 10111101 10010101 10110101 01010101 010100101 01010111 1110101 1011101 1010101 1010101 0011101 10010101 11110101 01010001 01000101 11010101 11000101 1011101 01010111 1010111 01110101 11010101 11110101 11010111 11011111 11110101 11010101 01010101 10110100 10111101 01011101 01010101 100010101 001011001 11010101 10011101 11010101 100110101 01010101 10010101 11010101 10011101 11110001 011101011 11000101 01010101 111101010 010101010 110100101 01010101 10011101 01011101 100100101 110100101 11011101 11110101 10011101 11110101 11010111 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110111 11111101 11010101 11010001 110111001 11010001 11011101 01010101 11011101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11110101 01001110 1100100001 11010111 01010101 10010101 11010101 11011101 11111101 11011101 11010101 01111101 011101100 1010101 1010101 1010101 01011111 11111111 11110101 11010101 011101000 01010101 01011111 11110101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11010101 01110101 11011111 110111001 110101101 11000101 11010101 10011101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 862
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, or are repeated.
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