This is an analysis of the poem The Lone Red Rock that begins with:
A song of the range, an old-time song,
To the patter of pony's feet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXefefgegefXfXfefedbXbhehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 00100101 1110111101 00100101 101110101 1010111 101110111 1110100 11011101 1011101 0010010101 10100101 010110111 10111101 1011101101 1011111 101110111 1010101 10100100101 1100101 10110101 00100111 011100101 0100111 111111101 1011101 1110101011 10100111 1010100111 1101111 101101111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1179
- Average number of words per stanza: 241
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, and, where, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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