Analysis of Pretty Cow

Jane Taylor 1783 (London) – 1824



Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white.

Do not chew the hemlock rank,
Growing on the weedy bank;
But the yellow cowslips eat,
That will make it very sweet.

Where the purple violet grows,
Where the bubbling water flows,
Where the grass is fresh and fine,
Pretty cow, go there and dine.


Scheme XXAA BBCC DDEE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1110111 1011111 100101001 1010101 111011 1010101 101011 1111101 10101001 10100101 1011101 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 371
Words 71
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor was an English poet and novelist. She wrote the words to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", which is widely known, but it is generally forgotten who wrote it. more…

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