This is an analysis of the poem Recovering Amid The Farms that begins with:

Every morning the sad girl brings her three sheep
and two lambs laggardly to the top of the valley, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXabcddaaXXXc Xb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100100111011 1111000010010 111111001001 1111110110 101001010111 01010010101 1110011101 01101111011 110101011011 10110100010001 1111111011110 001001011101 1010101010100 1110100111101 1100100101101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, makes, her are repeated.

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  • summary of Recovering Amid The Farms;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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