This is an analysis of the poem The Ox that begins with:
Here is a tale for farmer and for peasant:
There was an ox, who might have ploughed for Jason,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcXbdXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011101110 11111111110 11110111010 01010001010 10011101110 11011110010 10000111110 10011111010 11011101010 110101000010 100011101010 11011111111 11111011111 01111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Ox;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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