This is an analysis of the poem Reapers that begins with:
Sun-Tanned men and women, toiling there together;
Seven I count in all, in yon field of wheat, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac XdedXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101010 10110101101 10111001010 11101101001 10101101010 11111000111 10101101010 101111001001 001010111010 1110100101 111011111010 10101011001 101011001110 1010110111 111010110110 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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