This is an analysis of the poem The Open Steeplechase that begins with:
I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice,
By the side of Snowy River with a horse they called 'The Ace'.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaa bXbbX cXccX bdbbd efeef Xgbbg gcggX hdhhd bgbbg bdXXd dcddc bXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010111 1010101000111110 111110101110101 101110101111001 111010101010101 1010101011101110 101010101011111 1110111011111010 1010111010101110 111111001010110 111010101110101 110000100010101 01110101010001 101110101011101 1010111011101 1110111011101010 101110111010101 1110101010111010 1110101010101010 111010111011111 1111101010101010 111111101010111 11101110111101110 0110111011101110 101010101110001 1011101110101110 1111101011100101 1110001011101110 1110101010101010 111001001110101 1110111111111110 101110101010101 1110101011111110 1110101001101010 111010101111101 1110101011101010 101011101110101 1110101010101110 1110101010101010 101110101111111 1011101011111110 101001101010111 1110111010111010 1110101011101010 1010011101111111 1011101111101110 1011111010111001 10101010101010110 1110101011111010 111010101110001 1010101010111110 111010111110101 1111111110111010 11100101001101000 101110101010101 1111111110101110 101111101111011 111001100111001010 1111111011101010 11111110111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, you, we, his, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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