This is an analysis of the poem Do You Remember? that begins with:

My pony knickers at the corral bars,
The fog drifts landward from the evening sea:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaBcdcdEfEBghghbibighgheaeaiXiXEfEB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010011 0111000101 0111010101 1101011101 1001111111 01011100101 0101010111 11010101001 0111110101 0101011100 1101011101 1101011101 1001010111 1111010101 1101111111 01010011001 1011010101 1001010101 1111110001 1101010111 0101011101 0101010011 0101010101 010101011 0100011101 0111010001 1111010111 01111111001 0111011101 1111101101 0111010111 0101010101 0111110101 0101011100 1101011101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1590
  • Average number of words per stanza: 285
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; and, rode, to, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, where, to, it are repeated.

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  • summary of Do You Remember?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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