This is an analysis of the poem Country Glee that begins with:

HAYMAKERS, rakers, reapers, and mowers,
Wait on your Summer-queen; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXbbddbb bebeccfgaafg XcXcXbehaaeh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010110 111101 11011010110 101101 1111 1101 011101 11101 1101 11001 001001001 111101101 10010111111 100111 11011010011 1100101 111 0101 0101011 10101010 101 1101 111101 111110110 11010111010 110101 0111100010010 111111 1010 101101 0110101 10101001 111101 10111 1101001 10111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Country Glee;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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