Poem Analysis of The Reapers In Autumn by James Thomson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Reapers In Autumn that begins with:

Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky,
And unperceived, unfolds the spreading day;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaba cdeXaXbaXdXXdXcbXceX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 11010101001 11000010101 0101010101 0101 1111110101 1111010101 0101010101 11000101001 11100101001 0101011101 11010111001 0101101101 0101011111 1101110101 0111010011 0011010001 010011111 1001010001 11010101101 1101010011 11011101010 11110101001 0101011111 1101010111
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 516
Average number of words per stanza: 89
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
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; rural is repeated.

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