This is an analysis of the poem The Elphin Nourrice that begins with:
I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low,
An' a cow low down in yon glen;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCb AXCX XbcdeX cdfd edfd XXbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101011 10111011 1101111 10101111 1101101011 10111011 1101111 10101111 101010 111101 111111 111111 111101010 1101101 111111 11111 1111101 011110 11111011 111111 11110101 110110 111110 111101 11110111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cow, low, moan, your, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same words i, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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