This is an analysis of the poem Haymaking that begins with:

After night's thunder far away had rolled
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabXccddaaXXXbeeXcffaaggaaddccaaXXbbhhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010111 010011010101 10001101100 1011011101 1100100101 010100110 0111011101 0101010101 1111011001 0111010111 010101001101 0101010101 10010101010 11011101010 1101011000 1100110011 01011111110 10011110010 10010101111 1001001101 1101011101 11010010101 1001101101 0101010101 1001101101 0111011111 0101000101 1111110101 01010011111 1101010111 11011101011 01111101001 1111010111 0101001101 10111101011 1101110101 01111010011 10010111100 0101010100 10101100111 1011100101 01000100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 346
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Haymaking;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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