This is an analysis of the poem The Corn Song that begins with:
HEAP HIGH the farmer’s wintry hoard!
Heap high the golden corn!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb cdcd eaea bfbf bgbg eheh caca iaia jeje bbbb cfcfXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11011101 010101 11010101 010001 01000101 010001 11010101 110101 01110111 110101 110111010 111101 110101110 0100101 11011111 010101 11001101 010101 11011101 011111 11011001 011101 11010111 010111 11010101 110101 11010101 0101001 11010111 110101 11010101 011101 11010111 111101 10011101 110101 10110101 111101 11110111 110101 01001101 110101 11010101 111101 10010101 011001 11001101 011101 11110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words heap, the, let are repeated.
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