This is an analysis of the poem A 340 Dollar Horse And A Hundred Dollar Whore that begins with:
don’t ever get the idea I am a poet; you can see me
at the racetrack any day half drunk ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdebafgdggfgeahXifgcjhgkfkha XheXffXhfj j j j Xfhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,10,1,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010110101111 101110111 101010001110 11111111101 111010110111 111111000001 1100101011001 10111111101 011010111111 1111101011101010 111010111011 111011100100 0101001101010 110101101010 1011001001000 0100100110010 01110111001 010001111101 110011111110 110111101111 010111 11110111001 100110101111 1101110 10110101 10011001 111111111 1111010 1010101 1111101011 100111001 1111010 1100111 1110101 10111001 10111 111 0011110 1000110 111 1010 11110100111 11010 1111111111 11110011110 11101101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, look, he, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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