This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Wheat that begins with:
We have sung the song of the droving days,
Of the march of the travelling sheep; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdedededed fgfgeded efefbdbd dhdheded adadidid jfjfididXadadeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100101 001001001 110101101 110101 1011110111 10100111 01100100101 0101001 011100101 011111 101110111 0010101 100101101 10100101 111110101 1010111 10111111 1111011 111100101 1110101 1011110111 10100101 1110100101 0100101 101101111 0101101 1011011011 00101001 1011011011 0010111 1010100111 1100101 1010110101 1100101 01110111 1010101 111011111 10011111 010010101 0111001 11101101 10111001 10111001001 10110111 101101101 10100111 010011101 01001001 101010111 10111101 01010111 1110101 101010101 1100101 0011111101 11100101 10110111 1100101 111110101 10100101 101010101 1110111 0011010101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wheat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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