This is an analysis of the poem The Gleaner that begins with:
As children gather daisies down green ways
Mid butterflies and bees,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa bcbc XdXdXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111 110111 0101011011 110100 11110100110 010010 11110101110 100101 1011010101 010111 0101110101 110001 0101011101 011111 0101011110 110101 11011100101 111001 1101011111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Gleaner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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