This is an analysis of the poem The Bleating Of The Sheep that begins with:
Lo, I listened to the bleating of the sheep
Squatters' sheep ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbacca cccddceec fffeefXXf XXgXeghhg iiijjieei fffeefkkX iiihhikXi aaaccagga aaaXXalla fffmmfXmf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010001 101 11111110111 101011101 10101011 11101011101 11111010 10111010 11101110111 11100110101 101 11100010101 0010101 1011111 10111011101 11111010 10101010 11101111101 11111010111 101 11101111101 11111010 11100010 10100011011 10101010 01110110 10101111101 10101010001 101 11100010111 10101010 11101010 11101011101 11011110 100111010 10100111111 11101010101 101 11110010100 10001010 10111010 10011010101 11101010 10111010 111010001001 11101011101 101 1001110101 11001010 11100110 11101011101 11100110 11101010 1010010111 10111110101 111 1101010111 10101010 10011010 10101111101 11101110 11101110 10101011111 10101111111 101 10101010111 10100011 101000101 10111110111 10100011 10110111 11101010001 1111010001 101 11101110111 1111110 10111110 1111001001 10111010 10101110 10101011101 10101010101 101 11101010111 11101110 11101010 10101010101 11101100 10101010 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sheep, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, what are repeated.
The author used the same words lo, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sheep, me, plain, sat, place, past, horse, keep, men, you, lot are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sheep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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