This is an analysis of the poem There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down that begins with:
When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and sleeping sound,
Without a care or trouble on your mind, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbcXdadabXXX bcbcXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001101011101 0101110111 111000111010101 11100011101 001001110100101 10101010111 111010011110101 10001011110 111000101110101 0101010101 111010101010101 11101110001 111010110011101 101110101010 10101011110101 10001011110 11010101010011 11111010111 1110111010100001 11111011011 11101010111001 1101011101 101010111110101 001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 676
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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