This is an analysis of the poem A Voice From The Farm that begins with:

It is my dream to have you here with me,
Out of the heated city's dust and din--... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0011011101 1001010111 1101110100 1101010001 1101111100 1001011110 0110111101 1111111100 1101010011 0111110101 1111001011 0101111101 001110101 11011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, and are repeated.

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  • summary of A Voice From The Farm;
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