This is an analysis of the poem Where The Ponies Come To Drink that begins with:

Up in Northern Arizona
there's a Ranger-trail that passes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbbXc adXebdXe dfghifjh kflkdfbk elkidlki emXkgXik injcfnmc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10101110 101010101 010101 10101011 11100010 101110010 1010101 11101010 111110010 11101110 1110101 01101010 10111010 10111010 1110101 11110010 01100010 11101011 1010101 10101011 101001010 1010111 01110101 11111010 11101010 10101010 1110001 10101010 11100010 0010111 01110101 11111100 11110110 01011001 1110101 11100110 10110010 11101010 1110001 11111111 11111110 11111100 1010101 10110110 11101010 111 010011110101 11101010 10101010 10110011 1011101 11010110 11101010 1110101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Where The Ponies Come To Drink;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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