This is an analysis of the poem With The Cattle that begins with:

The drought is down on field and flock,
The river-bed is dry; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbddbeeb dfdfababffbffb bgbgchchffbiib cjcjjcjcffhffh kekeldldccaffa bhbhgagallXmmd knknjfffXdccd Xchchkakaffdccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,13,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01011111 010101 11110101 010101 11010101 110001 11110101 010101 10111111 10101111 1010101011101001 1111110 1101110 01010111110101 11010111 111101 11010111 110101 01010101 011101 01110101 110101 11111010 00101010 11000101110111 101001110 10100110 01111101110101 01010111 010101 110011111 010101 11110101 110101 11000101 110101 10101010 0101010 11001101010101 11101010 11101010 010101011101001 11010101 110101 01010101 110101 11110111 110111 11010101 110011 10101110 11111110 11000101111101 10101010 10101010 11011101110101 01110111 010101 01110101 110101 01010101 1100101 11110111 010101 10111010 100101011 101010111110101 10101010 10111010 01011101010101 11011101 111101 11011101 010101 11010101 110101 01000101 011101 10101011 10111111 111110101111110 111001010 11101110 01011111110101 11010111 111101 11010111 010101 110110101 010111 11010101010001 10101010 00101010 01010111110111 10111011 10101111 01011111010101 01111001 011101 11000101 110111 11110101 110101 01010111 010101 1101110 1111010 101010101110001 10101011 11111111 11000101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, s, em, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines em, there, us are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words away, home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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