This is an analysis of the poem When The Hens Begin To Lay that begins with:
There is laughter in the barnyard,
There is cackling o'er the way, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XA X ab A Xa XA ba XA X aXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100011 101001001 10101010 1010101 11101011 1110001 10101010 1010101 11101011 1011111 10101110 1010101 1110000100 10101001 10101010 1010101 11010101 110111 0111011 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 52
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, when are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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