This is an analysis of the poem The Farmer Talks that begins with:
HERE 's a letter from John in th' city,
Ain't heard from him now fer a year;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc XdXdXcXc ceceXcXc adaddcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010110 11011101 10100110110 11011001 1111111110 01110101 1111111010 111101111 111011010 10111001 111110011 11111001 1111011000 1111101 111111100 01001101 111111010 01011111 111011110 01001111 111010110 001011001 1010010010 101001101 1111111010 11111111 111010110 11111001 1101111010 11101101 10101111010 010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', he, i, 'm are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word school at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Farmer Talks;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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