This is an analysis of the poem Horses that begins with:
Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
On the bare field - I wonder, why, just now,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee ccff ggXX hhee ccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001000101 1011110111 111001111 1101010101 01110101101 11110101001 1111001101 1111111101 11001110101 0100110101 1111010001 1101010101 1101011101 1111000101 0111110101 01010111001 1111010101 1111010001 111100010010 111100100010 1111011111 10010010101 110101001 1001010011 1101011111 0110110101 1011101101 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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