This is an analysis of the poem Riders Of The Stars that begins with:
Twenty abreast down the golden street, ten thousand riders marched;
Bow-legged boys in their swinging chaps, all clumsily keeping time;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cXcX aaaa adad efef dgdg hXhX cfcXXbebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100110101110101 1101011011100101 10101001111100111 101001001011100101 111001010100111 11001001111100101 011110100110100101 10011010110111011 0111001011010001 111001011101101 11111111111111111 11010010111001010 11001010110101101 11010010110101101 11010011011101111 11101111011100111 1101111011100101 111100011100111 1011001011100101 1100111111101101 1001011011101101 11101001011100101 111011011111101101 10110011111000101 11010111100111 11001001011110101 101111011100101 01011110110101101 11110011100111111 1110011101111101111 1111001011111111 1111001111111101 10111001001010101 111001111101101 111011010100101 110100111101111101 11100101011010101 011100101101011001 111011010111101001 10101010110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (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; his, and, ye, of, that, we, 'em, as, our, to, yip are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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