This is an analysis of the poem The Lay Of The Motor-Car that begins with:
We're away! and the wind whistles shrewd
In our whiskers and teeth; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedefgfg hchcijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 011011 101011001 101101 111011101 111101 101001001 111111 111101101 101101 101101001 101001 101011001 11111 101011011 101011 111111011 111101 001111111 111001 101111101 01001 111011101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, we, our, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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