This is an analysis of the poem The Girl And The Goat that begins with:

The girl fights to pull the goat,
Totally terrified, sliding on the pavement...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccddXbXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101 100101101010 01010010 10100101001 01101 01110111 10011010010 101010011 10101110001 1111101010 101110001010 100100101 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, in are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Girl And The Goat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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