This is an analysis of the poem The Tale Of A Pony that begins with:

Name of my heroine, simply 'Rose;'
Surname, tolerable only in prose;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbbXbb aaccddXddef Xbbbbbbbbb ggddXXffhh ggiijjcceebbbkkbhh llllXXmXjjjnnnaacccccXooooobbboo ddXfffeeeeeemXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,10,10,18,32,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1011001010 1110001001 10110101 10101101 10100101 10101100 10110101 10101101 0101101101 100100111 1011101 100100101 110010101 0101 01111010 11110101 111100101 11011100 100100110 110100100 1111101 101100111 11110101 10100111 010111011 1010101101 10101111 11100111 111100101 11110101 10111101 10100101 10100101 1111011000 011011101 11011101 111101101 110111101 1011110101 110100101 010100101 01010101 0010100111 01001110101 010100011 011111001 010011101 11110011 1111101101 110100111 010101001 01000101 11001 0101 0101100101 1011111011 1101110101 1101111 110100101 1011111 10010101 10101101 1110111 01000110 1010001010 100101001 1010111 101001001 10110101 101011101 1110111 1011101 01000101 10101101 101011001 11100101 11110111 1111111 10111000 110100101 10011101 111110101 1101100101 111011111 110001001 010011101 110100101 010100101 110110111 010101111 110101111 111111110 110101100 010100101 111101001 111111101 010001001 100100111 1001101001 110100101 101100101 111111110 100101000 01010101 10010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Tale Of A Pony;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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