This is an analysis of the poem Cow that begins with:
Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,
Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacdXeeEeXffe XgfgXhiheeEeecXe dXXXfjjjeeEkeXie alflmdmdee EeeXXe XbddbXXXkeeXEeedde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,10,6,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101011101010 101010111011101 1011111011100010 111010100010111 0110101010101010 111110111010101 1111101010111010 111010101110111 111110101010111 110010111110101 11 1010101 001110001110111 11101010 10111010 001011010101011 1011101010101010 111011001010101 1110101010101010 101010101011101 10010101010101110 111010001110101 1010101010111010 101111110011111 111011101110111 011111111011111 11 1010101 001100110010111 10111111 10101010 111110101010001 1010111010101010 10111011110111 101001000101101 101110111010101 1110101011101010 111010101110101 1010111010111010 011011000111111 101111100111101 111011101110101 11 1010101 111010111110101 11101000 11101010 110011111010001 1000101010001010 1010111110111101 111101011111010 001111101010111 1011100111101011 111011101110101 0011111111111111 101111101010111 111111101110101 100111111111111 11 0010001 111111101010101 11111110 00101100 101000100110001 1011101010001010 111010101010101 11111111 11111011 10111010011111 1110111011101110 111001101010111 11101001010111110 101010101110101 011010111110101 101011101010111 11 1111101 110010101110101 11111000 10101010 111011101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yer, uv, an', cow, with, ter are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cow, yet are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word cow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase cow connects the lines.
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