This is an analysis of the poem A Rainy Day On The Farm that begins with:

How sweet it is to see the new-sown cornfield fresh and even,
With blades just springing from the soil that only ask a shower...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacccXaaddeeffggbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001011111110 011100011101010 010 111011101000001 111010101100101 10101101111011 1111101010101010 1010100101010111 111010100110111 00101111000111 101111101011110 111110111110011 111110011111111 10100111011111 1110101011010101 110100010011101 1101001101010111 111000110100110 11101110101011010 101010101000110 0111010111001011 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 253
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, and, in, to are repeated.

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