This is an analysis of the poem Windmills And Stone Stables that begins with:
Cows suffered in the days of old
For want of water and from cold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaaa XXcc ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11010101 10010111 10011011 11011101 11010111 10111001 11111101 11101110 10101110 01111101 01000101 10110111 11010101 11010101 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, let, them are repeated.
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