This is an analysis of the poem Wrestling that begins with:

At last came threshing-time, the manly season.
We kept the thresher thundering by daylight,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdddea fXgXXchfdgea hXXXXfXbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101010 11010100111 1101010101 10011100010 111111010010 110111010100 11111101010 111111 110100111110 11010111011 11111100010 11111101110 11111111110 11010101111 11010 11111111110 11010101110 11010111010 11110101010 11010 11010101110 1101110101 11110101010 01010101110 01100111010 1001110111 111111011100 10111110001 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, he, his, and, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Wrestling;
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