This is an analysis of The Reaper's Child by Charles Lamb.

If you go to the field where the reapers now bind
The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xbcb XdXd cece
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 011001101011 01011101101 101101101111 101101001011 1010010010010 101011001001 1011010101010 01011011011 101001101011 101101001101 111010110010 11011001011 11011101110 101001111101 11001111010 1110101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 19