This is an analysis of the poem The Horses that begins with:
Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefaXfacgghihjhibXdjjkXghejceiagecdedekdbkedeigdj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010010 01011110101 1001001101 111111100010 1001110111 11001101001 10101 010111101110 101101111101 11011011011 0111010001010 1001011 11110100110 11011100101 11001110111 0101011101 0101010111 11110111101 11111100101 11111111001 011100101001 11000100010 11010110010 01010111110 11111101110 1101111101 11001101101 1111011101 11011111 111101 11110 1001001101 1101010101 010010011101 11010101010 1101 1011101001 11111001101 01110110101 11001111101 1101000101 10111101110 1011101101 11101011101 11110100101 00110111001 1101000111 0100110101 10110000101 111011101110 11111111111 11110111111 11011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2320
- Average number of words per stanza: 436
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; on, they, would, not, we, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, if are repeated.
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