This is an analysis of the poem The Cock And The Bull that begins with:
You see this pebble-stone? It’s a thing I bought
Of a bit of a chit of a boy i’ the mid o’ the day —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcddefgffhcXdeeXe aidgajklbaamkjhXacXdkedfibabXXinafhbXee Xlkl dgelffafXoXfaklkdi pfkialbda bdXXniaa khpnodaebhdbkXhiXlifXXXkXkmXdadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,39,4,18,9,8,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100111 001001001101101 1101010111 11010010111 11010000111 0101011001 10110110001 110111101011 1111110101 11110010011 110110101101 1111111111 1111011011 11001111010101 1111010101 1111110111 0101001101 10000010010 11110101011 1111010101 0101100110 0001010101 110110101101 11001010101 110101001 11010110001 11011101101 1111101111 1001010111 1111111111 1101010101 1111010111 11111101011 1101110101 11010111100 101000101001 10010001001 1100010000 1111010111 1111010111 1100111111 11110011111 1101110100 1111011111 0111101011101 111111111111 0111111111 010110111 1100110101 1100110100 1011010101 110010101101 111101011010 1101111101 01010100110 111110100101 1010111001001 1111011101 11101001001 0101110101 10010010111 1011010001 1101110100 1111000101 110110101 110100001 10110011111 010101110 1111001111 0111010110 01110011000 010101100111 1111000100 10100111 1101110101 1101111111 1001011001 100001001101 0101011100 010110101101 11011010100 11010101001 010111111111 11111010101 0110101001001 1001111101 11011101101 11011110001 100010110101 1111011101 0011010111 011010110111 11111 1111110101 10101100001111 1100110101 1011011101 11010010001 0111101101 11001110100 1011001001001 1000011001 0101010101 01110110111 10101010101 1011111101 1101111111 1100010001 100100100111 11110100101 01010101010 1011110011 1011010101 11101111001 1011011001 1010001100 1001011101 10000001000 1011110100 11010101101 101111111 1010011101 0111111101 11011111110 0100101100 0110110101 0101010101 1111100101 0101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 802
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 129
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, of, o, d, haw, and, t, aie, off are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, this are repeated.
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