This is an analysis of the poem The Old Timer's Steeplechase that begins with:
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down
At the time of our local racing; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXcdXcd efeef dgddg egeeX hfhXf hghhg eheeh afaaf fdffd cgXcg efeef hfhhX igiiX jgjjg kdkkd Xgllg kgkkg ibiib bXbbg dcddc aaaaa hehhXXigiig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110111 101011010 1110111111 1111110101 101101000 1111011001 11101110 011010101 1010111101 10101110 1110010101 1101010 1011110101 1100101101 0111010 1011110101 11011010 110101101 1011110101 11101010 101101001011 1001001110 0111110101 1011100101 1111010100 1111111101 101111011 11110111 1110010101 111101011 10101001101 111001110 1010110101 011110101 11101010 111110101 001101011 110101111 111000111 11011011 10011110101 001101010 110100110 1011110101 11111010 10010111101 11001010 011110101 111101111 11011110 1011101101 111101110 110100111 010010101 01001010 10110100111 11111010 110101101 111100111 11001010 10010110111 11111010 111101111 0011111101 010110110 011111101 11101010 0011110111 1110100101 1011010100 111000111 11001110 1010110111 111100101 111001010 11111110101 001101010 100100111 110110101 01001010 01001011100 01001010 1101111110 10011110101 11011010 1110111111 001101110 1110100111 1010010101 11101010 1010110111 11101110 111101111 1110111101 001001010 1011110101 11110011100 1110100111 1011110101 111101010 111100101 10101010 111101111 1011110101 11111011 1011111111 001001110 1011110101 1111011110 01011110 1010100101 01101010 1110111111 1011011101 110011110 010111111 11011110 110100111 11101001001 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word 'em at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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