Analysis of 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.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
| Metre | 01111101 11011111 01010011 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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