This is an analysis of the poem Among The Timothy that begins with:

Long hours ago, while yet the morn was blithe,
Nor sharp athirst had drunk the beaded dew,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcbbc dedeffghhg eieiXcfeef hXhdjjchhc kekeeeelle dfdfbbfddf alalhhfXbf hlhldddkkdXaeaehhchhc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001110111 1110110101 0101110101 0101110101 1101010111 010111 11010101011 1011000101 1101101101 111101 1101110101 1111001111 1111011101 10110111001 11110001010 01001010 0111010001 1001110101 1111010111 110101 1111011111 110101001010 0101110101 10010101010 0111110101 010101 0111011111 11110100111 01010010001 110111 110111110001 0101111101 010100010001 0101101001 1101111111 011100 11110000101 0101000111 1011010101 010101 10110100101 0101011111 1001010111 1101000101 01010010101 010101 1101010101 0111110111 1100110111 110001 1101000101 10001001101 01001110111 01010100011 1001101101 111101 1101010101 11001010111 1001010111 110101 0101110101 11010000111 0101010101 0111011101 0011011001 1111001 1101100101 0011011110 0101000111 110101 111111011001 0111110111 1101010001 11011100101 0011010111 010111 1101110001 0101111101 10001110101 011111 110110011111 01011101001 0101110111 11111010101 1101100101001 011111 0011111101 11001000111 110111100101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, of, that, in, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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