This is an analysis of the poem Horses And Men In Rain that begins with:
Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window,
And let us talk about milk wagon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aXXa Xbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101101001011110010111010 11110111010110001001 11111011011110110111001 1001100101011 11101010111000 101111100101000100110111011 0100110110111001101110110 01010100000110101 11101101001110111001010101 10010110101011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 83 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, let, us, of, rain, in are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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