This is an analysis of The Sheep by Ellis Parker Butler.

The Sheep adorns the landscape rural
And is both singular and plural—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd bbbb eecc XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 010101110 101100110 0110001 01111101 01010111 11011111 101101010 110100110 01111101 01001111 11111101 01011101 0100100 01111101 01001101 01110111 10110011 11111011 101100010 101111110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, be

Anaphora

the