This is an analysis of the poem A Youth Mowing that begins with:
There are four men mowing down by the Isar;
I can hear the swish of the scythe-strokes, four ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd eeeXXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111011010 1110100111 1110111 1101101 0111001110 011111111 101011101110 100101101 11111001011 011110111 101100111 011110 01111001001 111100101 1011100 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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