This is an analysis of the poem Name Of Horses that begins with:
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding
and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdea cXea fcXd cafe XXXg ccbcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101011010 1101001101 10010110101110 101111101101001 010111000101101 101010110111001 110110101111101001 100011101110010 110111101110110 1001110100101 1011011100101 11010101010010 111100110010011 010100101100101 1010110101110100 001100110111 110111111011001 101001111111110110010 111110010101101 1101011111100011 11010100010100111 1100100111110011 10101011010101011 111100100111100 1010110000100110 101111011011 1010100110101010 1111001110110 1101001011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, of, in, 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 morning at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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