This is an analysis of the poem The Pasture that begins with:

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbC XaaC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010101001 1101010101 1101010111 11011111 0101010101 1101010011 0101110001 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of The Pasture;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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