This is an analysis of the poem The Cattle-Dog's Death that begins with:

The Plains lay bare on the homeward route,
And the march was heavy on man and brute;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccaa bbdd ddXb eecc bbff bbbb bbgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110101 1011101111 10100111101 1011110101 0101101111 011110101 1111111111 010100101 111100011 111100101 10100100101 1010110101 010100101 1111100101 1011110101 1110111111 10101101101 1110100111 110101110 011110101 110101101 010100101 110100111 111110101 1010100101 011100101 111100111 1110100101 010101111 0110100101 1111110101 1010100111 1110101101 011110111 1011111101 1011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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