Analysis of The Reapers In Autumn
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky,
And unperceived, unfolds the spreading day;
Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand,
In fair array.
At once they stoop and swell the lusty sheaves;
While through their cheerful band the rural talk,
The rural scandal, and the rural jest,
Fly harmless, to deceive the tedious time,
And steal unfelt the sultry hours away.
Behind, the master walks, builds up the shocks:
And, conscious, glancing oft on every side
His sated eye, feels his heart heave with joy.
The gleaners spread around, and here and there,
Spike after spike, their scanty harvest pick.
Be not too narrow, husbandman! but fling
From the full sheaf, with charitable stealth,
The liberal handful. Think, oh think!
How good the God of harvest is to you,
Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields;
While these unhappy partners of your kind
Wide hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,
And ask their humble dole. The various turns
Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want
What now, with hard reluctance, faint, ye give.
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Metre | 1101011001 01010101 010101011 0101 1111010101 1111010101 0101000101 11010101001 0110101001 0101011101 01010111001 1101111111 011010101 1101110101 11110111 1011110001 01001111 1101110111 11010101101 1101010111 11011101110 01110101001 1101011111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,019 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 20 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 407 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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