This is an analysis of the poem Peleg Poague that begins with:

Horses and men are just alike.
There was my stallion, Billy Lee,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdefceXfdaXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101 11110101 110111101 011010101 11110101 0101001110 111111101 001010111 110111010 11110101 0101010 11110011 11011101 111101110 11110101 11110111 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.

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