This is an analysis of the poem A Song For Labor that begins with:
Oh, the morning meads, the dewy meads,
Where he ploughs and harrows and sows the seeds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb X XXXbdddb X aXXbaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 1111101101 10010101 001001110 01001011101 100110101 10101100101 0111010 1 101010101 111001001110 10010011100 001001010 01001011101 0010111101 1111100101 0111010 1 101010111 11101100101 1001001110 00101010 011011101 1011100111 10100110111 01101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; heart, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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