This is an analysis of the poem When The Cows Come Home The Milk Is Coming that begins with:

When the cows come home the milk is coming,
Honey's made while the bees are humming; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101010 101101110 11110101 1011100101 1101011010 10111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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