This is an analysis of the poem The Good Shepherd With The Kid that begins with:
_He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save._
So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba Xbba cdbXcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011111 1110010101 01100100111 1111010101 11111001010 1101100111 0101011101 1100011101 1111100101 0101110101 11100100111 0101010111 1001010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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