This is an analysis of the poem The Keeper of Sheep (Excepts) that begins with:
I never kept sheep,
But it is as I did watch over them....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedfcgghdi bgfjkX ecccgccdX jdd f ccg ejfcgeee gegheeg dkXjjkc legmbelX nmnegl Xgeeeedefl eXccXiggjdckiegkca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,9,3,1,3,8,7,7,8,6,10,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 1001101100 1101010 101101 111010010 0101010 110100110 101111 110111011 11010010 10111010010 1111110 101011010 111001 010010011 101110001 10010001 1011101001100 1 1010011 0101001 111010 1011101111010 01010110 0101001011 110101010 01001000110001 1010101011101 11101011 000100101001 00101001 10101010011011 11110101 11111110101 0101111010 101011011 1010111110101 11010111011101 1010010001 1111101011001 11 1110001010 0110101110 0100011111111 1000 010100011011011 101100 01110011101 011011010 101101101 1110011101 1111010101 010100101110 1 010010011010 0100111110010 1111101010 1010110101111 101011101110 1101011110101 1111 1111000100 1110101011 10110111 1110111 11011 011111110101 101011011 11110101011 01100110 11100011010 1110110 1101101 11110101 11111010 111111 11110101001 110111010 000101010 10010101 00101100110 01101111001 11001001 1111011111 11010110110101 11111111010 110111111 1101011011 111111100 011011101 1101001010011 010110101010 101000010 011011001001 110101011 1101011100101110 011101011011001 111011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and, about, what, think, mystery, of, that, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, that, this are repeated.
The author used the same word what 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 contented, world, curtains, goodnight are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word of at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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