This is an analysis of the poem On Fields O'Er Which The Reaper's Hand Has Pass'D that begins with:
On fields o'er which the reaper's hand has pass'd
Lit by the harvest moon and autumn sun, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101010111 1101011101 1111010001 10110010101 1101011111 0101010011 1101010110 01001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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