This is an analysis of the poem The Farmer's Bride that begins with:
Three summers since I chose a maid,
Too young maybe-but more's to do... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdd aaeececeff XXdddgghhhdddd cdcdXXddXeecce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111011001 110110111 11111101 011111110 1010101 011111010 11010101 1100111001 1010101011 11001001 1100111 100100111 1101010111010101 11010101 01110011 10010101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11111101 10010111 011101111 11111101 1011100101 11011011 01011101 11110101 11010111 110100111 11110111 110111001 00111101 0111010111 0111000111 1100111101 01010101 10111101 0101010101 11010110 11000111 11100101 01111101 01111101 01110001 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; and, her, as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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