This is an analysis of the poem Scythe Song that begins with:
MOWERS, weary and brown, and blithe,
What is the word methinks ye know, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc dededcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 10011011 10101101 100100101 1011001110 10111111 1001110110 101001011 111010110 11111101 111001010 11100101 11001011010 11111111 1111010110 100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, hush are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hush is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word grass at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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