This is an analysis of the poem Scholar And Carpenter that begins with:

While ripening corn grew thick and deep,
And here and there men stood to reap,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccX dddceXeX cccfgggX eeehccch hhXbhXhi cccjhhhX kkklmmml jjjbllli hhhfcccX ffXXdddX hhhcdddX jjjjfffX hhhbccci bbbfjjjX nnnlcccl dddhhhhh Xeeheeeh bbXfeeeX oXohbbbh dddfpppX oookdddX XhhojjjX hhhbjjji bbqhhhhh hhhrhhhr ccXceeec bbbdcccd ffXcfffc hhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110011111 11111101 11111101 10011111 01110101 110010111 01110101 11010100 11011101 11011101 01011101 11010101 11110111 11110110 01110101 0111010 11110001 11010101 11001101 01111101 0101011 1100001001 11111101 011010000 11110101 11110111 01111101 11011111 01010111 00110101 11000101 01010101 11001011 00111111 11011100 11011101 010011101 101110111 01000101 01010100 10010001 11111101 01110101 01010101 10010001 11010101 11010001 11110100 10010001 11010101 11010111 11010111 10010101 01111101 111100101 01011101 111111001 1101011 101111001 010101001 01010001 11111101 01010001 01000100 10110111 10010101 11110101 01110101 10010011 11010101 11111101 010001000 11111101 11110111 10110011 11011110 101111101 11111111 11011101 110101000 11111101 01010111 11110001 01000101 11011101 10110101 11110111 1001101000 11110111 10111101 11011101 11110111 11110011 010001001 11011101 10110100 11010111 11111001 10011011 11011001 110001111 10011101 10010101 11010100 10100101 01001101 11111101 010110101 11010101 100111101 11110011 11111000 11010111 01010001 11011101 010000101 11010001 01110011 010100101 11011111 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11110101 11001101 11011111 11010100 10110110 11011101 11110101 11011111 111111110 110101010 111111010 11010100 11111110 10010101 11011101 11010101 11110111 11010011 11101101 010011000 11010101 01011011 111100101 11001101 01111101 01010101 11111011 11111100 11011111 00110101 10011101 10110101 11110111 01010001 01010111 100101010 11011101 11110101 11110011 11010111 10110111 10010111 100100101 01011100 10111111 01110111 110101111 01010101 01010101 11111111 10111101 01110100 01001101 10010111 01110101 01110101 01010101 01110111 11000101 11110100 11111101 11011111 11011101 11110101 11000111 01010101 11000101 01010100 10011101 11010111 11010111 10111101 11010101 1101001001 111100101 11010101 11011011 01011101 01010011 01010101 10010011 11011001 11011101 11110101 11010101 11000101 01110101 11110101 01011101 1001101 01011111 01011110 111111001 11111101 110111010 11111001 11101111 11011100 11110111 11110100 11110101 11011111 01011101 10111111 01110101 10011101 11001101 11010100 01011101 11010101 11111101 11010101 10011101 01110111 01011101 01110100 11011111 11011101 11010101 11010111 11111001 11000101 01010101 11010101 01010001 11000111 01010101 11011111 10010111 11010001 11100101 11110100 110111111 11010101 11011111 11011101 10011111 111111001 11111111 10110100 11011101 01010101 11110100 01110101 11100101 10011101 10010101 11011101 01011101 11111111 11111101 10110111 011111010 11010110 11110101 11111111 01100111 01010101 11110101 01010101 01010101 11110111 01011111 11110100 11000101 11011111 11010101 110111001 11010101 1111110110 11110101 10011101 11110011 11110101 11010101 11111111 01011111 11110111 01010101 10010100 11010101 11010101 11000101 111101101 11111101 11010111 11011111 10111100 11111101 01110101 11111111 11011101 11110101 01011011 11111101 11111100 11010101 11011101 11111111 10110111 11010111 11011101 11110101 11011110 11111101 11110101 11111101 11011101 10010111 110011111 11010101 01110100 110011101 11011111 11011101 11011111 11111111 11110111 11110111 11111111 11011111 11111111 11110101 11111101 10011101 11010111 11010111 11111101 11011101 110100111 11111101 11010111 11111011 1001100001 11110111 01110101 11110111 110100101 11110111 11010111 11110101 11111101 10100101 11111000 110110101 11110101 11011011 01000101 11110101 11110101 111101001 11011110 101100101 10111111 11111111 11110101 11110111 11011101 11111101 01011101 11010001 1111101 10010111 11010111 11011101 11111101 11111101 111100100 11010101 01110101 11011111 11000101 01011001 010010100 11110110 11100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 400
  • 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; and, to, she, i, that, would, for, you, ', her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, all, where, i, and, behold, a, with, that, till, 'his are repeated.

    The author used the same word 'then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    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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