This is an analysis of the poem Mowing that begins with:
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabdecdeeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111001010111 111111100001 110010111111 0101100101001 1001010101 11110101011 011100101010 11011010111 101110111111 00101110101 10110101010 1100110111 01001011111 11110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of are repeated.
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