This is an analysis of the poem The Devil's Race-Horse that begins with:
Devil's Race-Horse seems to me
Strangest thing I ever saw:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaXbB cdXcdX cEcceE cFccfF ghgXhh cccccc cccccc iGiigG jhjjhh kakkX Xacaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1011101 1011101 1111100 1011101 1011101 1010101 11101010 1110111 1111101 100010010 1110110 1111101 1011101 1010101 1111111 1110101 1011101 1111111 1111101 1110001 0010101 1011101 1111101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1010110 1011111 1000101 1111101 1010111 1111101 1011111 1110111 1011011 1110101 1110011 1111111 10101010 1111111 1110111 1111101 1110101 1111101 1010101 1110111 1110101 100011111 1111111 1011111 1111111 1111111 1111111 1110111 1011111 1010101 1010111 1111101 1111101 1111111 1111111 0110111 1100111 1110111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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; that, their, your, and, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same word 'and 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 ' is repeated).
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