This is an analysis of the poem The Cattle Thief that begins with:
They were coming across the prairie, they were
galloping hard and fast; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcBddcdefgfahXhibcB XjXjbklkXhcXlflfmclclclc XdhDdchcahbhhgbgehiXcdndbfefhDbXbhnhmcacXjdjocfcbeceojejecocicncchlhbbdbajnjjfoX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,24,80,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101010 100111 1010110010110 1111 1011010101 0101 1010110010101 1001 01110011010 101 110010100110010 1 11010100110010 01 110110110111 0101 1111010101 101111 1110010100110 1111 11100101110 101 11101111110 111 11101101011 101101 11110101010 100101 110100100111 11111 11001110111 01010 1000110010110 10101 111000101010 101 110111100110 011 10110101100 111 101101011010 101 101101011110 101 11101010101110 11 10110001010 010001 10111111111 111011 101110101010 101 11010111010 0101 10111001011 110101 11101010011 0101 1110101010101 1011 1001100101010 101 10110110011 1010100 010101001011 1 101110101010 111 110001000101 01 11110101001 00101 10110001010 010001 101101110111 11110 1110101001 10111 111111001011 0100101 111100101110 101 1001111010 100101 101111111 111011 11101101010101 101 1111111110 11111 1111110101 1111101 1111110111 1101 100101011011 11 11110101111 101 11111101101 11 11111111111 111 10101110011 101101 110110101101 101 1101100101100 101 110110101101 11 010111101010 101 111101111101 11 11110111011 10111 11111110111 101 11011010101 0111 1101101011 01101 110110101110 0010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1494
- Average number of words per stanza: 255
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; who, and, you, him, what, have, our, meat, give, back are repeated.
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- summary of The Cattle Thief;
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