Analysis of A Sower



With sanguine looks
And rolling walk
Among the rooks
He loved to stalk,

While on the land
With gusty laugh
From a full hand
He scattered chaff.

Now that within
His spirit sleeps
A harvest thin
The sickle reaps;

But the dumb fields
Desire his tread,
And no earth yields
A wheat more red.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1101 0101 0101 1111 1101 1101 1011 1101 1101 1101 0101 0101 1011 01011 0111 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 280
Words 57
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry John Newbolt, Sir

Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a very powerful role as a government adviser, particularly on Irish issues and with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum". more…

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