This is an analysis of the poem Barley Grass that begins with:
Wavin' corn upon the hillside,
Twinklin' daisies on the rise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXcXc XdXdXccc XeXeXcXX XbabdcXc XfXfXcXc bXXbXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 1010101 101001010 10000111 10111010 0011101 11101010 0010101 10111010 1011101 10111010 1111111 10101010 1110001 11101010 1010101 1011000 0010101 10101010 1010101 11001011 1011001 1011110 1110101 10111010 10010101 10101011 1110101 10101011 1010101 11111010 1110101 11101010 01111001 10101110 1010101 10101010 10101001 11011110 1110101 11111010 11111000 10101100 0010101 10111100 0011111 10101000 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word barley at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grass at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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