This is an analysis of the poem Improved Farm Land that begins with:

Tall timber stood here once, hee on a corn belt farm along the Monon.
Here the roots of a half-mile of trees dug their runners deep in the loam...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 11011111011101010 101001101111010011011010111 1010011011001011100110010111010101101 1011011010101111010011111001001011100101 0111110110011101010111010110010101011010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 139 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 27
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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