This is an analysis of the poem After Cattle that begins with:
WE lit a fire, and straightway camped,
And all night long...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeedffgccghhieeijjeaaekkfiifaaefXeXXcaaceehllhXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 1111 11010101 110111011 11101 01010101 01111101 1101 11000111 110101111 1101 11111111 11011111 1111 01111101 010110101 1101 11010101 01110101 0101 11010101 111100101 1101 01010111 11110101 0101 11000101 11010101 1101 11110101 11010111 0101 01010101 11010101 0101 01111101 11110101 1111 11011111 11011101 0111 11010100 11010101 0101 11010101 11110101 0101 01010111 111010111 0101 11010101 11011111 0111 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1650
- Average number of words per stanza: 306
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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