This is an analysis of the poem The Night Before The Mowing that begins with:

ALL shimmering in the morning shine
And diamonded with dew, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababcbc deeebcfCbbabdcfC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110000101 110001 110000101 110111 01010101 01010010 11010101 0101010 11100101 111101 111100101 001101 11010101 0101010 11010101 0101010 11010001 111111 11111011 010101 10111101 0101010 11111111 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; field, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word mowing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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