This is an analysis of Reapers by Jean Toomer.
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1100010111 110010110101 0111010111 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
