This is an analysis of the poem Ploughman Singing that begins with:
Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met
Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababababcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100010101 1111110101 1110010111 1101010101 1101011111 0101010111 0111110011 1111111101 0101111111 11101100101 0101010001 1100110011 1101110111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
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