This is an analysis of the poem Milking Time that begins with:
There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane;
There's old Martin jogging homeward on his worn old wain;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaccbc ddedffbf aaXaggXg hhbhiibi hhehffjf j X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101000111 1110101010111 1110101010111010 1010111010111 11111110111111 1110001010111 101111101010110 1010111010111 1110011011111 1110111011011 0100101010101010 10101110011011 110101010101 1010001000111 1011101010101010 1010101010101 10111110001001 1110101010111 1111101011101010 1110101011111 1010101010111 1011111010111 1010101010101010 010001011101 1110101011111 1110101100111 1010101010101010 1010111010000 111101101101 1110101011101 1011101010101010 1010101011111 010101010111 1110111010101 10101010001010010 0010101000111 110101000111 110101000111 111101000101010 1010101010101 101110 101010101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, their, her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, for, and, that are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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