This is an analysis of the poem The Shearer's Cook that begins with:
Now, shearers' cooks, as shearers know,
Are very seldom wont to blow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbCCX ccddbbCCX eeXcffccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010101 11110101 1100101100 0111000111 01011101 10101 10101 101011110 0100111001 1101000101 1101001010 11010101 11011100 01110101 10101 10101 101011110 01010101 11010101 01011100 11111101 1001000111 11110011 1101 10101 101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; with is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word yez at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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