This is an analysis of the poem The Black Horseman that begins with:
Lift me up from this bed of sickness;
I am going out to meet the summer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbc adedc fegec Xgfgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001010 1110101010 1010001011 10110001110 1011110110 111100111 111100110 1010110110 101101010 1110110110 111111010 0011111110 1001110101 11011111110 11111110110 11111111011 1111101010 11111101010 110101111010 1101100010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word horseman at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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