This is an analysis of The Good Shepherd With The Kid by Matthew Arnold.

_He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save._
So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba Xbba cdbXcdb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
  • Metre: 1101011111 1110010101 01100100111 1111010101 11111001010 1101100111 0101011101 1100011101 1111100101 0101110101 11100100111 0101010111 1001010101 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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