This is an analysis of the poem The Courtship Of Young John that begins with:
Fields of lucerne and waving wheat,
White-washed sheds, and cottage neat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXbb ddcceeff ggeeaahh ffggffii eejjaaee ffiieeiiee ffjjccff eeaaffee jjffkkee iilljjff lXfddffXeXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,10,8,8,8,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 1111101 101011101 10101101 001110101 101111100 10010111 010100101 1010111111 10101101 11111111 0011100101 101010101 01010101 101011101 1110101111 111101111 1011101101 11011111 00100101101 10100100101 1001001111 1100101101 1111101111 1010100111 110011101 11011011001 1100101111 110111111 1110101111 11110101101 1110010111 1100101011 010111101 010100101 10011101011 1111001011 1010101111 10100010111 1001100101 101010101 0110010101 111111101 0100111011 1010010111 011110101 01011101 0101001001 1010100101 11100100111 1101000101 1010101011 011010111 0011110101 110110101 1011101101 0011001101 11110111001 1110100101 110101101 101011101 1110100101 001011011 1111101011 1110101011 1010101001 10101100111 1110110101 0100111001 110111101 1100111001 101011101 10111001101 1010111101 10101111001 001011101 010111011 101010010001 1101011011 1010110111 10111011001 01010111 010110101 1011111100 111010 1101 1111011101 11001101001 110010111 1100010100 01100110101 11101101011 1010011110 1110111101 010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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, you, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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