This is an analysis of Seed-Time And Harvest by Ada Cambridge.
“Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys
thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xab cbbc cXXc deed cffc ghhg XiiX ihhi accaXbiib
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110001011010001010 111100100101110001 00 1110110101 1101110111 11110110111 1001111101 11111101111 1111110100 1111011111 0111010101 1101011011 1111111111 1101011101 1111111000 10110100111 1111110111 0111111101 11110110101 1101110111 01111100101 0111010111 0101110101 01110111110 1111000101 11110111001 1101011111 1111111101 110100011 1111111111 0100101011 1111111101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 11010011111 1101011101 1101011101 111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
thou, of, thy, that, in, i, and, be, my, glad
Anaphora
that, i, be, thou