This is an analysis of the poem Harvest Time that begins with:
Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb XX cc dd ee ff ggXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110101 100100101 100100101 100100101 111100111 10100111010 100110101 110110101 100110111 1010110111 110110101 1100100101 011100101 010100111 110100101 1101001111 1001100101 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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