Poem Analysis of The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A Fair by Anne Kingsmill Finch for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A Fair that begins with:

Who does not wish, ever to judge aright,
And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: Xabaa cbcbb bXbdd efeff ededd babXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1111100110 10010101 0101110101 1011010101 111101110101 01011100001 11011101 0011011101 1101000101 100101001001 0101011001 11110110 10111100101 1011000101 110101100101 0101110101 11110101 1111011101 1101111101 111001010001 1101010001 01110101 1101100101 1111110011 110111111101 1111000111 01100101 0101110101 1111100101 100101110011
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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