This is an analysis of the poem By The Hoof Of The Wild Goat that begins with:
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
From the cliff where she lay in the Sun... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabaA bXaXaA caXdcaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011100 001111001 101 001101101 111001001 101 101101001 001101101 101 110010100 111001001 101 11111001 11111001 11111001 11 01001111 101001001 1110010001 101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thou, oh, who, hast, even, now, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word alone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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