This is an analysis of the poem A Cowherding Girl that begins with:
The plums tasted
sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdXXXefdXaadfXebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 10010001011 11100100111010 11110110 10110 11010 111101 111100 1001 1110010010 1111010 101001001 1110010100001 001 010101110 01100 11101011 111001001 101001 110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Cowherding Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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