This is an analysis of the poem Cows that begins with:
Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough
from behind the whitethorn hedge: we stop dead in our tracks;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cde dfX fgX XhX XXh ifi XXf fgf Xfg ejX jXj fXf XXX Xcb XfX XkfXfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 00101001111011 010100100001 00111010101 11111010101 10101001 0010010110001 10101001101 1111100 0100111101 11010101 11110101010 0010010010111 011111 1000110110 1011010101 0101110001 111110111 1101 0110100101 10011111011 1101010101010 0101100000 011101101101 11001110101 1001111 0111100100110 11001011101 111111010000001 111000101 1001111010 1111111001 1100111100 10101111 11110100111 10101001 0111011011 111100 101111011001 1111110 110011 01010101110111000 110000000010 010111010101 11101100110111 100000000010101010 01011001 110110010110100101 010111111110 01010101 11101100 1111010101 01010110100101 1110100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; ', earth, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word enough is repeated.
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- summary of Cows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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