Analysis of The Night Before The Mowing
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)
ALL shimmering in the morning shine
And diamonded with dew,
And quivering in the scented wind
That thrills its green heart through,--
The little field, the smiling field,
With all its flowers a-blowing,
How happy looks the golden field
The day before the mowing!
All still 'neath the departing light,
Twilight, though void of stars,
Save where, low westering, Venus hides
From the red eye of Mars;
How quiet lies the silent field
With all its beauties glowing;
Just stirring,--like a child asleep,--
The night before the mowing.
Sharp steel, inevitable hand,
Cut keen, cut kind! Our field
We know full well must be laid low
Before its wealth it yield:
Labor and mirth and plenty blest
Its blameless death bestowing:
And yet we weep, and yet we weep,
The night before the mowing.
Scheme | xaxabcbc xdxdbceCxbxbxceC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110000101 0111 010000101 111111 01010101 11110010 11010101 0101010 11100101 11111 1111101 101111 11010101 1111010 11010101 0101010 11010001 1111101 11111111 011111 10010101 1101010 01110111 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 16 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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