This is an analysis of the poem At Husking Time that begins with:
At husking time the tassel fades
To brown above the yellow blades, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabC aabbXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 110110001 11010001 10010101 01010111 01011101 11110111 1101 01010101 01010101 01100111 01010101 010101010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word time at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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