This is an analysis of the poem Harvest Song that begins with:
I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cdb ae b XX b ad d e XbcdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101111111110 111111101010 1110 1101011111110 110001111101 110 1111010101101 110111101011011010100 0100010101110110001001000101111110 10011111110 1101111101110100 1101111111101111111111000111111111011100110 1111010101101 11011110101010100111101 01000111100011110001001111101001101001 11011011101111111110110110 1101010111110 1111010101110 1101011100 1101 11101111110101001100111111110110101111100111100110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 81 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, fear, it, to, of, my, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hunger at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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