This is an analysis of the poem The Lay Of A Golden Goose that begins with:
Long ago in a poultry yard
One dull November morn, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daXa aaea fegX Xbhb fXfX ihaX ddfX jjjX efff iaia faga dfaf efaf kbdX jaga Xgcg jdjd ggeX XXaX lXXX gjbX afjX hglg XheX gjaj bfaX gkak fgjg XgfgXdfjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 110101 01010011 010111 11011001 010101 10110101 110001 1001100101 010101 01010101 0100101 11010101 110001 101010101 0111010 0101010 010111 01010101 111101 01111001 0111101 11000101 1101010 11010001 110111 100010101 10110100 01111111 010101 101010111 1111010 01111101 100101 101011101 0101010 01010111 110101 01011101 010111 10100111 111101 11011101 010101 11111111 110101 110100101 101101 11111100 110101 11011101 110111 11111111 110101 11011101 010101 11010101 1110111 01011101 1100010 11111101 010101 11011001 110101 11111001 101011 11011111 010101 10110101 010101 10010111 1001101 11110101 101101 11000101 10111010 11011101 010101 11010101 10111110 11001101 010101 1001001010 10111010 01111101 110101 11011101 1111100 11011101 010101 101111001 0101010 11010001 110111 01011100 010101 11010101 110101 11011101 1011011100 11011100 111101 11011101 1010111 101110101 100101 11110001 11011100 10011101 010101 11000101 110101 11010111 11111 01111101 111101 11010101 101101 11110111 010101 10010101 010101 10010111 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, back, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, were are repeated.
The author used the same words the, she, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- history of its creation;
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