Plowmen
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
A plow, they say, to plow the snow.
They cannot mean to plant it, no --
Unless in bitterness to mock
At having cultivated rock.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 27 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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