This is an analysis of the poem The Riders Of The Plains that begins with:
Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
To whine and sneer that they do not fear the whelps in the Lion's lair? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddeeXXbbcc bbffbXcc ggggbbcc gXhhbbcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010110111 0111111110100101 110010101100101 10101101111010001 11101110101000101 11101011010100101 01011001010110101 0101010111001001101 1010110111101101 1110110110100101 00101011001001001 110100101011110 1010110101010001 00101001110010001 110111110101001101 1101011010100101 11010101100101 11011010110101001 111001001010100101 11111101010010111 11011100100101 11011011101000010 11001101010100101 11101001010100101 11010101110101 111001010110100101 110111011100111 01111101011110101 1101001010110101 11111001010010001 11001110101001101 11101001010100101 1100111011100101 11100111011010111010 11100111011100111 11101011010101111 111110101011101 01110011110101001 10111101010100101 11101011010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, that, who, men, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, these, and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word law at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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