This is an analysis of the poem The Reaper's Child that begins with:
If you go to the field where the reapers now bind
The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xbcb XdXd cece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001101011 01011101101 101101101111 101101001011 1010010010010 101011001001 1011010101010 01011011011 101001101011 101101001101 111010110010 11011001011 11011101110 101001111101 11001111010 1110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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