This is an analysis of the poem Out O'Doors that begins with:

There's a gypsy wind across the harvest land,
Let us fare forth with it lightly hand in hand;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddcc eeffcc ccggXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010101 11110010101 11111010101 10111110111 10101110011 10101001111 11101010101 10101010101 10111011101 11101010101 10101010011 10100010111 10111011101 101110100101 101110110101 10100010111 11111000101 10101011111 10101001101 11101010101 11101011101 101010101001 10111010110 11111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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  • summary of Out O'Doors;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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