This is an analysis of the poem Death Of An Old Carriage Horse that begins with:

I was a harness horse,
Constrained to travel weak or strong, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaBcbcBdbdB ebeBXdbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 01010111 01000101 101101 111101 11110101 11010101 101101 110101 01100101 11010001 101101 010001 110101001 01011101 101101 101101 11010111 11111101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; push, to are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word along at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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