This is an analysis of the poem Riders In The Stand that begins with:
There's some that ride the Robbo style, and bump at every stride;
While others sit a long way back, to get a longer ride. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaXc aXaaXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011111001 11010111010101 11111101011111 11110101111101 11010101010101 11010111110001 111101011100010 11110111110111 11100101110101 1111110001011011100 01011101111111 11110101110001 01100101010101 11010111010111 11010111111111 110101011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ride, and, some, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they'll is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word stand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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