This is an analysis of the poem The Wind That Shakes The Barley that begins with:

There's music in my heart all day,
I hear it late and early,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaB cbcB dbdB ebeB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11001111 1101110 01011101 0111010 01010101 0111110 1100101000 0111010 01010101 0101010 01010001 0111010 111101101 0111110 11111101 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; home, come are repeated.

    The author used the same word above at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word barley at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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