This is an analysis of the poem Woman Of Three Crows that begins with:
O woman of Three Cows, agra! don’t let your tongue thus rattle!
O, don’t be saucy, don’t be stiff, because you may have cattle....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddcc eedc XX dc ffcc ggcc ccccXeedc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011101111110 110101010111110 1111101101110101 010010111111111 010111011101100 110111011101010 11110101010101 11011101010011 1110010111011010 1111010011101010 010101011100101 11011101110011 011001011101010 101101001101010 1101100011101001 11111011110011 110100010111010 111101011000100 11010100110101 11101101010011 10011101011110010 111101011101010 111111001011101 11111101110011 0100101111101010 100101000101110 11111101010101 11011111010011 110111011101010 01101111111111 11011111110001 10110100110011 111111011111010 111101011101110 011111111011011 111110111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; don, t, you, and, be, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word cows at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Woman Of Three Crows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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