This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Harvester that begins with:

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Autumn, like an old poet in a haze... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccXbddeeffbbccbXXbgghhbb iibbbbffdd d ffcXf ajbXj dXffa bibbi ffggf fikXi dfaaf blXfl chddh X bbbbffjj g GigiBBGG fbfb ggGG GmgmBBGG X ffjjbbnXmmccfX X BbbibbbX dddabbba BbbcbbbX nnn bbbXb X ooggiiddggccggddiijjgg n hjfjmnpNNIDDI dbmXbngNNIDDI
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,26,10,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,8,1,8,4,4,8,1,14,1,8,8,8,3,5,1,22,1,13,13,13,1,16,6,1,8,8,3,5,1,12,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011110001 0101010101 1101111111 0101010101 11010001000 11111100101 1101010001 1101010101 0111000111 0011001101 1101010101 11010010101 10110100010 10010100010 01001010001 1110000101 1101010101 1101000101 1001010100 1101000101 11010100101 1111010101 1100000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010001 10111100001 1101110101 1011010101 1101010001 1011010011 1011000101 1101000101 1011000101 01010011101 101 10010111 11010101 11111101 010101010 011101 01111101 01010100 10110101 110101000 010101 11010101 01011000 11011101 11100101 110101 1000100101 01110101 01111101 01011101 010101 01010101 11011101 11011101 01010101 110101 01110101 11011101 01011111 1101001 010101 01011111 11010101 01110111 11011101 110101 01110101 10010101 010101111 01011101 110101 01000101 01011101 01011101 10010101 111101 1 1101100101 0111011101 11110111010 1101110001 0101010011 0101110101 1111010101 1011010101 01101 010110011 10101110 101101101 10101110 111101 110101 10011110111 1100111110001 010110101 10101010 010110101 00110110 110111 1001111 10011110111 1100111110001 010110011 11101011 0110110101 00101111 111101 110101 10011110111 1100111110001 1 1101110101 0101110111 0111010001 0101100111 101110010101 0101110101 0101100101 10111111101 0111000101 1001001101 1101010001 1111010101 0100111110 0111010100 1101 110101 111101 111101 110001 1101010 1111010 0101010 110101 110101 110101 010111 010101 010101 010111 111101 111101 110101 111101 111101 110101 11110010 1001010 110111 101001 110101 010111 111101 010101 101001 010101 011000 110101 1 10110101010 10010101110 1010111101 0101010111 11110010101 11010001001 0101010111 1101010101 010100101101 100111111 1101010101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 1011010101 1001001101 0101000101 0101000101 0101010001 110100010001 010001 11011101 110111 01011101 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010 010010101 011001 11011001 0101110 0101011010 010101 01110101 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010 10010111 111101 11010101 110101 11111101 110101 11111111 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010 1 110101000010 01010111010 0101010101 1111010101 00101010101 0111010101 1101011101 1011110101 0111010111 011110001 1111010001 0011010101 0101011101 1111010111 01011100101 0100000101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 0101010101 0111110101 0111010100 1 101101 100111 101101 10110 100101 110101 100101 11010 100111 100101 111101 11010 110101 100101 110101 11110 101101 101101 100101 11010 110101 111101 101101 10010 1 01011101001 10110101011 0111010101 10111111001 1111010101 1101110101 0111110101 1111010001 0111011101 1101010101 0100011101 0100011100101 10 11110100010111 11010100010101 01111101101001 111011101110101 11111101010001 11010111010001 01010100010111 111010100010111 1111010110101 11010101010001 11101101111100 101010101010111 1101010010101 11111101010101 110111001111101 101011101010101 1101010010101 1101011110001 01010011010001 11010101010001 1101010100101 0101010110101 100100101100101 01000101111101 1 11011100101 10010101001 0111110101 1101000101 1101011101 1111010101 0101000100 1011010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 11110101010 0101000101 0101001010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 53
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 340
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, of, their, our, song, and, her, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from, a, who, old are repeated.

    The author used the same words from, a, 'she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flail, plough, claire are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ode, flail, it, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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