This is an analysis of the poem Dr. Johnson's Picture Cow that begins with:
Got a sliver in my hand
An' it hurt t' beat the band,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdX eeffggdd hhggbXdX bbaaffaa ddffXiXX bXXXiibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1011101 1110101 1011111 0111111 11011101 1110111 1010111 1111101 1110101 1111111 1010111 1011111 11111011 1011101 1111101 1111101 1110111 1011111 1110111 1111111 0010111 1110101 0110011 1111111 1111111 1010111 1010111 1110111 1110101 1110101 0011001 1110111 1111111 1111101 1111101 1111101 1111111 0110101 1111101 1111101 0011111 1111111 10110110 1011101 1111101 1111111 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; an', i, to, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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