This is an analysis of the poem Roll A Rock Down that begins with:
On, out in the West where the riders are ready,
They sing an old song and they tell an old tale,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef agag Xehe Xehe ihiX XdXd ajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011010110 11111111111 1010011010110 11001101001 0011010011110 01101011011 010111011010 01011101011 110011010110 11011001101 111010110010 001011001011 1010111010110 011111101101 1101001010110 11011011001 110111110110 11001011011 10101111001110 11001011001 111011010110 11011101111 011111011110 11111001001 1101001010010 11001101101 1110010011010 11001011011 110111010010 01001011011 111111011110 110111100111 111011111110 11111101001 010111110010 11111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it's, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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