This is an analysis of the poem Our Cow that begins with:
Down by the slipralls stands our cow
Chewing, chewing, chewing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdc XcecdbfX egfgXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 101010 11111111 00111110 11011111 1111010 01111111 0101110 11010101 0101110 01110001 1111010 11011101 0101110 01011001 0101110 11111111 1101110 11111111 1101110 10010111 100101 11010111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; chewing, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and are repeated.
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