This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd's Calendar - August that begins with:

Harvest approaches with its bustling day
The wheat tans brown and barley bleaches grey... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbaaccddeeffggggbbddhhcciiaaeeaaggggaahhbXaaggccbbbbddaaccXjaacchhkkddbbjjggggeeggXhddllhhkkXh aaaaaaggmmXgbbhhgXccllkkccaabbXc bbcXggXannaaXbccaaoojjhhiibbggggbbddbbaaaall ggaaXbiXllddiiggXiffhhiiaabbccbXccooiiggbXii ggcXaaXdXgaaXXggXXaaaXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 98,32,44,44,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010001001 0111110101 0101011101 1101010101 10010111001 1111010101 1111110101 1101010111 0111010101 0111010101 1011110101 1101000101 11001010111 1101010001 0111010101 0111110101 0101011101 11011000101 0101110101 1101011111 0101010101 1101010101 0101100101 0111010101 0101010101 1111000101 1001010111 1101010111 1101000101 0101110101 11111101001 0111000101 1001111101 1101001100 0100011011 1001001101 1101010101 11110011101 1001010111 1101110010 1001010101 0111110001 1001010001 1101110101 1000111111 0111101110 100110010001 1111000101 1101000101 1101000111 0111010101 0111011001 1001011111 0111110101 0101111101 0101111101 1111100101 1101111111 1111101101 1111111111 1111110101 1101111101 1101010100 1111000101 1011010101 1011010101 110101101 01001110001 1011001101 1101110101 1100110101 1111010001 1011011101 1101011111 0111010101 0101111101 11010010101 1011010101 1101011101 1101011111 1101010001 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101110101 0011110101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010101 1001110101 1111001101 1111010101 1111010101 1101011101 11010010101 1101011101 01011100110 1101010101 1011010101 11110110101 1111011111 1111110110 1101110101 1101010101 0111011101 11001101111 110011111010 11010101010 1001011110 1101100101 10010010101 1011010101 1101100101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010110 1101011101 0101010111 1001010111 11011010101 1111010111 11011100101 1101010001 1001010101 1101010111 1011110101 0111010101 1101110101 1101110110 1101010001 1101111101 0101010101 1110010111 1101001110 0101111010 1101010101 1101110101 1111111101 1101010001 1111111001 0101111101 1111010100 1111010101 1011110101 1101010101 11011001001 1101010101 1011111101 1101010101 1111110101 11011100001 11001010101 1001010101 1101110101 110010101001 1101010001 11110101001 0101010101 1110010101 1111110110 0101010101 1101010101 111011101 0111010101 1011010111 1001010101 0101010101 1001011101 1011010101 1001111111 0101110001 11110001001 1101011101 1001110001 01011000101 11011001101 1011111101 0101010111 1111011110 1011111111 1101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1101110101 0101001101 0101011101 111111110101 1110100111 11010011001 1101010101 1101010110 1111011101 1101010001 11010001001 11111011101 1111010001 1101011111 1101011111 1101010101 0101110101 1101111101 1101010001 1111010001 1111010101 1111111111 1101110111 1100110101 10110100101 1111111101 1101011101 1111011101 1111111101 11110101001 0101110101 1101111101 01001010111 11010111001 1101010101 1101111101 0111111101 1100010111 1101110110 1011110101 1101101011 1001110101 1101110001 1101111110 0111110101 10011010101 11010001001 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010001 110110101001 1111011111 1111110101 0111111000 1111010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2081
  • Average number of words per stanza: 385
  • Amount of lines: 242
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, in, its, to, his, as, or, her, wi, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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