This is an analysis of the poem The Wheatfield At Gettysburg that begins with:
THESE famous acres bear a mystic wheat
That waits the Reaper’s scythe... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX b cbc ab ab dad a adadXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 110101 0101011101 110101 11010100101 010101 01111101001 010111 01010010101 0101011 11010100101 101111 01010100111 0100101 1101010101 010101 0111000101 110111 1110010101 110101 1000011111 010101 1011001101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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.
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