This is an analysis of the poem The Path Through The Corn that begins with:

WAVY and bright in the summer air,
Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddbbeecc ffaaeecc ccbbggccXddeeddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101 1010110111 101011101 011100101 110100101 10110101001 1101 1001101101 011110111 1001001001 110111101 10010011101 10110101 11100111 1111 110010111 11101011 010100101 100011101 100100111 110111101 110100101 1011 1101001101 010101001 10100111 111110101 110100111 110101111 0010110001 1011 0111001001 01111111 1111001101 111011111 10111111 110111101 01001101101 1101 111001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; corn, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines corn is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word corn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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