Go Work In My Vineyard by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Go Work In My Vineyard that begins with:

Go work in my vineyard, said the Lord,
And gather the bruised grain; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb abdb ebXb cafa ebgb baga dbXb efbX bdfd dagX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101 110011 1010110101 1110101 010111111 1110111 110110101 1100111 110100101 1110101 110011011 0010101 101100111 110101 110111101 110101 111100101 1011011 1101100101 1100101 101011101 1100111 101110111 1111111 110111101 010111 110011011 10100101 111110101 11001011 11010011 1010010000 110101111 1010101 111100101 1010001 11110111 1011101 010100101 10011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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 word and is repeated.

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