This is an analysis of the poem The Cow that begins with:
THIS is a rune I ravelled in the still,
Arrogant stare of an Australian cow— ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 00011100001 1001010101 1101000101 1101010011 0101010101 1101010111 1101111101 0111011110 0101001101 1110001101 1001011101 10010101010 1101010111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more 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; of, to, and are repeated.
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