This is an analysis of the poem Seed-Time And Harvest that begins with:
As o'er his furrowed fields which lie
Beneath a coldly dropping sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXeeggccddffeeddggddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111 01010101 11010101 01001101 11010101 01001111 11010111 01011101 111100101 11010101 11010101 01011100 01101101 01000101 11011101 01010101 11110101 01000111 01110101 11000101 11010101 11110101 01010101 01010101 10010111 01011101 10010111 11011101 11110111 110110101 11011111 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1139
- Average number of words per stanza: 210
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and, the are repeated.
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