This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Horse that begins with:
Do you know this mysterious, serious Watt
Who sits at the game with the cards in his sleeve;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbdd aedeff ggggXhh XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111001001001 11101001001 10110 111010 01101001001 1101100100100 101111101100 1001011001 1101111101 111100100100 1001101011 111100101101 110100110101 1010001001 10011111001 1101011 1101011 1101011101 100101111101 110110101011 10101001001 1001111101 110100 101100 0101001001 101111110101 100110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there, says, then, sirs are repeated).
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- summary of The Dark Horse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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