This is an analysis of the poem Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867 that begins with:
A SONG of the good green grass!
A song no more of the city streets;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab bcb XbdeX aaXd XfbgbXaXfhbbba dbXXbeXeidgjbkeflbX ahehl mag hm lXh bbmXne kgajjmXhXh afbh oak hXebd bke bbia bhXXh eebkm bbj bXmeb glj deb bX gla fpkjkcXla agn gn XbafXbgcao gbe ekja ejmXapbnbfbffbbbpd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,4,14,19,5,3,2,3,6,10,4,3,5,3,4,5,5,3,5,3,3,2,3,9,3,2,10,3,4,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100011 011100101 01010100101 010010111101010 10011 0110011101101 10111110011111 11010101110101 010111101101 10001001111001 1001111 111111010101 110011110101 110110011100101 0101010111 100101 0101110010 10010101 111101110101 0101010101010011 01010101010011 0100101001010001 01010010001000 0100001011100 01011101011001 01010010 0110010101001 01011101110011 010101011101110 10010001 1111010111 11010111110010 101 11010101010 01001011100011111 10 1111100101110001 111001011010111 0101010011110101 1100011100 11110010 1101000101 11011100010110101 1111011101 100011011001010110 10111010 1110011100110111001 1011001 11111111 10010110100100101 1010 001001001011 110111010110 111111 1010101010101 1010010010101001010 1101110 11010100101 1111010101110 101 110101010101110 111101 11010101101001 0110111011011 10 1011111111011 1 1110101 111010101010111 101 1110101101010010 101010111101010 111001100110101001 101 111110001010101 01 11101010 1111010 10110101101110 1111010111 10101 1010111111010 111010011100111 1010100100010110 111011010 10101101111 1100101111110111 111010 1110010110011 11010010010 1010100111001 011111 110010001110010010 11001010010010 101011110010100 101 110110101100 111010010111 11 10010010111011 01110011101 010101 01010101001 0111111101111 1 111101 01011101001 1111001111001 11111100 11011100111110 011101111011011 100101111111111 111 0101111101 11111111 010011010110 01011101100100 1101100101011 11010100111111 110011010 110101101 11110011010101 11101001001 110110110111 110101000010 10010111010 10101101001 101100110101001 1010011110101100 111010110111 11001010101100101 11010011001101 100111100100010010 1 111010010 1011111101001 00101110111 111011100101 01001111101101 1101001100 100100111010 0100101001010100 100100100010011010 010111 011010011011001 0101001110011 1010010101001011 10001011010101101 10 01111010 0111101111010 10 1101110 1111110010111110 0100 101110110101001 1011011010101011011 110 1001001010101010011 1011 100100100101011100 111 100100100100100101 10110101101101000 1 1001001010110101110 1001011010101010 1010101011010 1010010111101100 10 1011011110001110 01001 1111001111111 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 186
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of, song, for, and, thee, o, to, thou, lookest, that, hospitable, nor, your, with, in, i, saw, ye, or, wars, well, under are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, o, the, thou, as, nor, no, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words a, pass, i, toil at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines army, wait, harvest are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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