This is an analysis of the poem Sow In The Morn Thy Seed that begins with:
Sow in the morn thy seed,
At eve hold not thy hand;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc cdcd aeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 111111 01111111 110101 111111 011101 11010101 110101 111101 111111 11010101 110001 1101001 010101 01010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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