This is an analysis of the poem As I Watche'D The Ploughman Ploughing that begins with:
AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields--or the harvester harvesting,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101000110100100 1111111110100 110010110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; life is repeated.
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