For the last nine years I have worked in the summer for a lawn care company. So when I was going through a list of poems by Robert Frost I came across one titled “Mowing.” The title caught my attention cause of my summer labor so I decided to see what it was all about. After reading it I realized it was about more than just mowing grass, it was about the rewards of labor. Frost says this is more rewarding than any fantasy image.
The poem is only fourteen lines long and uses a rather unusual rhyme scheme: ABC ABD ECD GEH GH. From what I could tell of the meter, only line twelve is close to iambic, the others I could really figure out other than they all seem to have either four or five stressed syllables a piece. Frost uses two lines in the poem
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.