This is an analysis of the poem The Riders that begins with:
RHEIMS is down in fire and smoke,
The hour of God is at the stroke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc XX dd ee ff gg gg ee hi ff jj dd hi dd ddXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 010010101 1110101 1010111 11110101 101011 1011011 0101010 1111101 1110111 1111101 110111011 1111111 1000101 1111110 110101010 1111101 1010001 1110001 10100101 10111110 1010011 0111111 00100101 010101011 1011101 1101101 0111101 110010100 1101001 0010101 1001001 10101001 01011 10101011 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same words who, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light is repeated).
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