This is an analysis of the poem Riding that begins with:
FILL up, fill up the stirrup-cup!
The wine is running free:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdcdeeXebfdfggfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101 011000111 110101 010101010 10101 111111010 111101 1111010 010101 11010101 010111 01010101 100101 11010101 110101 1101010 010101 11000111 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to, and are repeated.
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