This is an analysis of the poem The Cows on Killing Day that begins with:
All me are standing on feed. The sky is shining.
All me have just been milked. Teats all tingling still ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd eede eb fghXbh fgXc i iXa ffji eieejgf e aie Xge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,2,6,4,1,3,4,7,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101010 111101111001 011101010101 111000011011 111011101011 11101001110101 011011111011 11001010110011 10111101100011001 101111111001001 010110001001010 1011001110010 11011110101011 101011010101 111100101101111 111100100110001 0101010100110 101011110010 1110011101011100 00111111001 1101001101101 110100101101 111111010111 1101010110010 1001101110010 11101110111 0010001011010111 1110111100011 1111001011001 1101101110011 001101011101011 000100100101 1010011111011101 1101110011110 011010011010110 10110101010111 101010010110 1011101010101 10111011010101 010010110101011 010110101101010 1111011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, in, me, on, and, of, human are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same words all, the 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 me, feed are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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