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sowed

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Planted seeds by scattering them across the soil; carries rich metaphorical meaning in biblical and agricultural verse.

Detailed Definition
Sowed is the past tense of sow, meaning to plant seed by scattering it over soil. In poetry it often suggests both literal farming and the figurative planting of hopes, efforts, or ideas.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And we that sowed, though all we fell on sleep” — sowed is the past tense of sow, meaning to scatter seed for a future crop; the agricultural action becomes a metaphor for work whose results others may inherit; “sow” can also mean to spread ideas, conflict, or hope; compare “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy” from Psalm 126; farming verbs often connect seasonal labor with mortality
Additional Notes
The word 'sowed' is a farming term in the quoted line and may be less immediate for readers outside agricultural contexts.; Found in the poem, A Leave-Taking by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Also Known As
planted scattered disseminated
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