This is an analysis of the poem Looking For A Goose To Cook that begins with:
When you find that you've been saddled for a ride...
Move your hoofs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABAC DCCBEFGH DCCBEFGH ABAC DCCBEFGH HHHH DCCBEFGH HHHH iHiHH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,4,8,4,8,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 111 11111010101 11111 11111010101 111 11111010101 11111 11 101 11 111 111100 101 1010 1010101 11 101 11 111 111100 101 1010 1010101 11111010101 111 11111010101 11111 11 101 11 111 111100 101 1010 1010101 10101010101 111100010101 10101010101 111100010101 11 101 11 111 111100 101 1010 1010101 10101010101 111100010101 10101010101 111100010101 10 11010101 10 11010101 111100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, saddled, goose, cook are repeated.
The author used the same words when, i, many at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cook is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words hooked, cook at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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