This is an analysis of the poem The Matrimonial Stakes that begins with:
I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall,
I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeXe fgfg hchcXbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11000101110001 1101010101 1010101111100001 11101011101 001010101111111 00101010001 1101101001110111 00100010001 1110101001101100 11101111101 111010101110111 10101110011 111001100100110101 11101110101 111010111111001 10111111001 111001111110101 10101110101 101110101110101 11111110101 101111101110101 111010010111 101010101110001 101000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her, of, won, it, she, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Matrimonial Stakes;
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- idea of the verse;
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