This is an analysis of The Firstborn by Jean Blewett.
The harvest sun lay hot and strong
On waving grain and grain in sheaf,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dedX fefe ghghXgcgc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 01011111 11011101 11011101 11111111 01110101 110101001 11010111 11010101 11010111 11010011 01110101 11111111 001101001 01010101 010010101 111101101 11111111 01001111 11010110 11111101 01010001 110011101 01110101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, on, of
Anaphora
on, that, of