This is an analysis of the poem The Kine Of My Father that begins with:
The kine of my father, they are straying from my keeping;
The young goat's at mischief, but little can I do...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXCXadadXeaeffaf XbCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011100110 011110110111 1110101100110 110110100101 110111100110 100011110011 1100111111010 110110111101 01111111101010 1111010110101 100100011111110 1110111010101 111101010111010 011111010101 0101010100101110 1010101011101 11110101111010 111100010101 0110011111010 111110110101 110101100110 111110110111 1100111111010 100110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
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