This is an analysis of the poem Lower The Dow Bows that begins with:

Lower the dow bows.
And quickly dips, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcdace Afdbdbe eadbeghc X i adXidX gc bjfjX jkkk XeegX b XX X jkhbX Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,1,1,6,2,5,4,5,1,2,1,5,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011 1101 0110 10100101 0101001001 1001 011101 10011 101101010 0101101 101111101 1101110101 10111010 11011011100 11101 0110011011 101010101001 11011101 100110 10110100010110 1001001110101 111011001100 1011 1111 11110 1000101001 1101 10101 100101101 11011 10010 1001101001101 111 0111011 01010101 10111 111 1 11 1100101 111001110 1 10010011101 00101011 101010101000 1110101 1 11110 111101011001 1110110101 11101101101 11 10101 1111001100 10101010101011 1110101 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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

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