This is an analysis of the poem Only A Jockey that begins with:
Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light,
Out on the track where the night shades still lurk, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX efef cfXf edXd XaXa gdgd hhhX chch aiai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110100101 1101101111 101100100101 1101101011 101101101100 1101011001 1000101101100 11110111010 101110101101 1101111101 101110110101 1001001001 1011111110100 1101111011 110111101100 1111101101 10011100100101 1101011001 1101011011010 11111101011 100101111111 1001001001 1011001010 1011111101 101100110111 1011111011 101101111111 1011101001101 111110100100 1101001001 111100110100 111111010010 111100100100 11111101011 101101110100 1101011101 11011111100 1011011001 1011001100100 1011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, you, on, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, have, draw are repeated.
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