This is an analysis of the poem The Stockman's Last Bed that begins with:
Be ye stockmen or no, to my story give ear.
Alas! for poor Jack, no more shall we hear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeX eeff ggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011011011011 0111111111 01001001101 0110011001011 111111011101 101111101111 11011111101 10001111011011 111001111001 111010010010 01001001111 01101101001 11001101011 10101111111 11001011101 1001111001 11011011101 101101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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