This is an analysis of the poem The Huskers that begins with:

IT was late in mild October, and the long autumnal rain
Had left the summer harvest-fields all green with grass again;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeebbffXfeebbccggccaaddccaabbhhiigXddccggjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 011010101010101 11010101110101 01111101010111 0010101110111001 10111110011111 110101010110111 11001010110101 10111010110101 11110101110001 1101010010101 10101010110101 10101111110101 11010111110011 101010101111111 111101010010111 10010100011011 01111100010100 110010101110011 11100111010101 101010101110111 01010100010011 11110111011101 11110110101001 100010001010111 11110111111111 01001101110101 010101010100101 11000101010101 110101001100101 11000111010111 11111111011111 11010111010101 11110101111111 101100001110101 101001011010101 10111010010001 11000101011101 110001001010111 01001111110011 11011111010101 11001110011001 11010101010101 01010101010101 1101110111110010 11000101010111 1011110011101 111101001110001 11110111010101 1100110010111 10010111110111 010001011011101 00110111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 573
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.

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

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