This is an analysis of the poem Women's Harvest Song that begins with:
I am waving a ripe sunflower,
I am scattering sunflower pollen to the four world-quarters. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbX bXcXcab abbbbdeefafXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001110 1110011010001110 1110010110 111001011 1110010110 01101 10011 1011010 101111 10110010010 01010110 1011101 1001110 1110101111 010101011 0110110 11111001 1111010 110110111101011 1011011 1011111 110110 011010010 11011011 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, corn are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, his are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wa is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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