This is an analysis of the poem The Sheep-Child that begins with:
Farm boys wild to couple
With anything with soft-wooded trees...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeaa Xfcgbbeh adgafijb ik lglmXnjmljkhkbmbjanajmXmdjnbilkbcjhinj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,2,38,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 010101101 01011 01101011 100110011 001101 110110 11111 1000100010 11001011 1011101 1101010 10010101 111101 110111101 1101101 1001111 101110 11110010 01110011 10111011 111111 011010010 0010010010 100010111 01010 11101101 1111011110 01100011 00110111111 100110011011 00101110 00111111001 10101101001 10111111101 1000010011001 010010100 01011111 01011110 001010011011 1111011101010 01101011 111001011 10111011 111111110 11111 0111 10011111 0110111 110011110 111110100101 10 11101010 110111 01111111001 11111010 00101111111 011001111 10011001 11001001111 10011111001 1111110 011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, in, we, her, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, i, from are repeated.
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- summary of The Sheep-Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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