The Child An' The Mowers by William Barnes: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Child An' The Mowers that begins with:

O AYE! they had woone child bezide,
An' a finer your eyes never met,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcdXd babacece bXbXXeXe bXbXfcfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 101011101 101101011 001011111 101011001 111011111 10110111 1111001101 111001001 101101001 101101001 111011111 111111011 111111111 101101001 101101001 111111101 101101010 101101001 011101111 001011101 101101101 111111010 111111011 111101001 111101011 101101101 001101111 111101101 101110010 101101101 101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; vrom, his are repeated.

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

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