This is an analysis of the poem Seed-Time And Harvest that begins with:
MY hollyhocks are all awake,
And not a single rose is lost; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd Xebefcfc gdgdhchX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010101 110011101 11010101 110010101 11111111 11101001 01010111 11010100 011011101 11010101 010010101 01011101 01110101 111100111 01111101 11110111 11110111 11010111 01010101 11111111 11110111 11110111 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word i'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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