This is an analysis of the poem A Cry In The World that begins with:

Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously?
High is the grass to your knees and wet with the dew of the morn,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdbXXcbcdeaX fgagbdfXehXhegeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111111100 100101111001001 1000101011001010 10111101111100110 11101111011101 11100111100101 1111110111110011 11110101011110 11101111111110 00110111001001 111111111011010 010111101100101 1110111011001 101111101010001 11011110110010010 01110101101111 1001111111110 100110100011001 110010101010100010 110111010101001 1110111101111 01111100110111 0010010011010010010 111101001001001 10100100111010 10110100111111 11111101111010 111101110101 000111011000010 1111011100101 10111101010010 010011100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 999
  • Average number of words per stanza: 200
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; kine, of, thy, bird, me, with are repeated.

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  • summary of A Cry In The World;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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