Love's Gleaning Tide by William Morris: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Love's Gleaning Tide that begins with:

Draw not away thy hands, my love,
With wind alone the branches move,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaab Xccb dddeXaaae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 01010101 11010101 0101111 11011111 10010101 11111111 1111111 11010101 11111101 01110111 0101010 01011111 01011101 01011101 11011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word us at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Love's Gleaning Tide;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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