Analysis of The Mower
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
Scheme | XXX AXX XAX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111011 01110101 11110011 111101010111 111110101 1100111 1101110111 01110010110 110111110 11101111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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