This is an analysis of the poem Damon The Mower that begins with:
Heark how the Mower Damon Sung,
With love of Juliana stung!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccde ccccddff dXXXfXdd ddggffbb Xeaahhbb fXdXbbbb iiggccjj bbffbbaa ggffeddd ggbbeefX bXkkgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 11010101 01111001 10110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 110100111 11111111 01100111 110011111 10010111 11101101 10011101 11000101 01011101 1111100010 00110101 11011101 11011101 1010110 10110101 1100101 111111010 001111010 01111101 10110101 01111101 11000101 11011111 11100101 11111100 01111101 01010111 0100111 01100101 11110101 11010111 11111101 11010101 11011111 11010101 01010100 10111111 01011111 11010101 01010111 11010101 01011001 01010101 11110111 00010111 01110101 11011111 11110101 11110101 0011111 01111101 10010101 01010111 01001101 11111101 01111111 11011111 11110101 11110101 10111011 10111101 11110101 11010101 10111111 11110111 10000101 10010111 11010111 0111101 00001101 11010111 10110101 01111111 01111110 01011111 01111111 10111101 1100111 11011011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; like, his, my, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
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