This is an analysis of the poem A Disqualified Jockey's Story that begins with:
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me,
That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdeedXfBdXggfachijX ijkdilcd bXlcjlXhB jheccXjaL dlfaececeXL lkddbccjkdfkiXciXdec lkabXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,9,9,11,20,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101111 111000101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010111 1000010101 1100110101 0101010111 1101010111 1110010101 1101110101 1101011101 1111111111 1101011111 1101011101 1101110111 1010011111 1111110101 1100110101 1011101110111 1111011001 01001101110 11101110101 0011111111 00011101101 1111011111 0101010101 1111011111 1101110101 0101011101 1101110101 01010010101 1100100111 1111011111 1111110101 0111110101 1101011101 0111110111 1101110101 1101010101 10110110111 1101111101 1001010101 11001110001 1101010100 1111110101 1011011101 1101110101 11010110101 0111011101 1101100001 1101011111 0101111101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010111 1111011111 111101011000 1101110101 1111110001 11010111001 11000100111 0101111101 1101110101 1101011111 0101110101 1101011101 1101010011 0111011101 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1101111111 1111111101 1111011111 0111010111 1101010101 1111010111 1100111101 1111010101 1101111111 1111011101 1111010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, he, her, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word one at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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