This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Gray Stallion that begins with:
My dam was a mustang white and proud,
My sire was as black as a thunder cloud;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddeeceeffghhbbgaaffbbbiib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 11011110101 11101010111 1011110111 1010101 10011111 001111101 1011100101 110111101 1110111 11110101 111111111 111100101 1111110111 1011101 1101011010 1100111010 111111111 1011110111 1010111 10110111 101111101 101011101 111111111 011101 01011111 111111011 111110101 111110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1160
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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, i, to, learned, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, and, the are repeated.
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