This is an analysis of the poem The Cornflower that begins with:
The day she came we were planting corn,
The west eighty-acre field,-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded dfgf cece ebgb hbhb hcXc bggg ieBX XfeX jhkh kala Bbdb mdkd bmam enbn hfbf XbbX edfd chbX bdgd hada bbXb ocic XnkX clbX bpgp hhkh XbgX omgX aXbb canX jdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011110101 0110101 11011111 1101111 1111010010 0111101 110101001 1010111 110101111 0011101 111111111 1010101 110110101 1111001 111010101 1100101 110101111 1101101 110101111 0110101 111101011 1011101 110101001 1111111 101011101 1010101 101101011 1111001 0101011001 0010101 1110100101 1111111 11101110 1010101 011110101 1100110 1101101110 1111101 110110111 111101 110100111 0100001 011010100 1111111 111111010 1111111 101111011 1011001 011110101 1011111 110101001 1110101 101110111 1100111 010110010 1111101 111101001 1101101 011010011 1010011 010011101 0010111 1110111011 1110101 110110100 1111111 0010101000 1111111 100110010 1111101 110100101 1100101 101101001 0010011 1110100101 1111101 111111001 1100101 011111111 11101011 111011111 1101101 111110101 1100011 111011101 0101111 111101101 00100101 01111101 1001010 1011111100 1111011 010110010 1011001 111011010 1101101 111101010 1101011 101010110 110010110 110110011 1111111 111011101 0110101 010110101 0101111 100101101 0011101 011010111 0101101 011010110 100111 111111111 1110101 110011111 1111101 1011100101 1111011 0100101001 11101010 111100101 1010100 110101001 100111001 111111101 0010101 111111111 1101001 110101101 11111011 1101100101 1011100
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her, such, be, i, and, fool are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, for are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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