This is an analysis of the poem Barbara Frietchie that begins with:
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb dd aa ee aa aa aa ff bb ff ff gg hh dd bb ii bb bb ff Xf dd ff Xj jj kk llXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 10010101 010101001 111010100 1010101 10111101 11010001 00100100101 1110100101 111100101 10010101 111001001 10101101 10101101 10010101 01111111 11110011 10010011 100101001 111010111 0010100111 011111101 10110101 11101001 100101111 11011101 1011111 10110101 010010111 010100111 110100101 110010101 111110101 110100100 10110111 11110111 010100101 100100101 010100111 011110111 110010111 11011111 11111001 10010101 1111111 100100101 10011111 101011101 11011111 110000101 100101010 1010110111 10001101 110111001 10100101 10101101 11101101 11100111 110010111 1110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; it, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words forty, it are repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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