This is an analysis of the poem Putting In The Seed that begins with:

You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababababcdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101101101 1101010111 0111110001 1101000101 1101111101 1001111101 1101011111 0111110111 1001110101 1111010001 1101011101 1110110001 0101001101 10001110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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