This is an analysis of the poem Come Up From The Fields, Father that begins with:

Come up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete;
And come to the front door, mother-here's a letter from thy dear... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XcXdXeef deeX ggh fX idgbiXXc heae Xedc hgXd cXbffdXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,3,2,8,4,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101010011 110011101010011 1 1110 1101101100110 11100101000110000 1001 1101001011110100 1 1101001101 1101110101010 01110111101010011 0101 01111110110010110 11 10011101 11001110110101 1100101000111101 11111101010001100 11110010110101 10010110 1001111010101 101111111110101 110101100111001 110 1001011100110010 1001101 1011101010 110101001 011101100100101011 10100111001101 1010011 1111100111011 01 01010100110101 110100101101010 01111010010110100 10111101 111111011010101 010101 101010010 1011100101 1101011111001010 10 001110101001110 1111010101001011 01 010010000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; from, and, smell, all, come, to, her, she, o, be, better are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words lo, smell, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vines is repeated).

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