This is an analysis of the poem Sheep that begins with:
Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep--
one by one going up the hill and over the fence--one by...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXXXcX bXcXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110111 111101011100111 11101001110111100 11111101111 10111100011010000 1001111111110 101100000110 10110111111000 11011001 11011101001111 101010101010101 11101111110 10011110110010 00111011001110 11001000100110 11010000101010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; one, by, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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