This is an analysis of the poem The Corn-Stalk Fiddle that begins with:

WHEN the corn's all cut and the bright stalks shine
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdedeccfbfbccaeaeccfbfbcccXXbXcXaXaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110111 1010100101 1011110101 1011110111 1011101111 10101101110 11110110111 0110100101 11100100101 111010101 111110010010 00111101110 1011111101 10010100101 1010110111 0010100101 11101101010 00101001110 1011111101 1011100101 0111110101 1010110101 11110111110 1111001110 11010101 11110101 11011101 11110101 111101010 1111101110 10110101 1111101 1111101 1110101 11101101010 00101001110 10111101010 101011101 1110101111 1111010101 0110110111 00111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1855
  • Average number of words per stanza: 359
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, for, scrape are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Corn-Stalk Fiddle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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