This is an analysis of the poem On A Cattle Track that begins with:
Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill-rocks asunder,
And the shouts of the desert-wind break,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXddd Xefefcdc fgdgheXe XfaXXihi hdXdehXh ahXhXhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110111010 101001011 1010010110010 101011101 1010110111100 01001001 111010110110 001001011 011010110100 11011001 110110111010 00111001 1010110010110 001101011 111110010110 1010010111 0010010111010 001011001 10110101011010 111101001 011110110010 101001001 1011110111011 001001101 010011010011 01101101 00111100010010 101111110 1010010111110 111001001 110010110010 101001011 0011010110110 001101001 110110110110 01101011 110011110011 110011011 111011011011 101001101 110110110110 01101101 010110010110 11001001 1110101010100 11001011 10100100010010 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there are repeated.
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