This is an analysis of the poem Horses At Midnight Without A Moon that begins with:
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcXaXdXXddXadbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011 1110001001 1110011011 1010110110100 0101001111 111110110 1110101 010100101 1101100011 110000010 1101011001 11011110 11010 11001101100 101010 1100110 1101001010 101110010 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, but are repeated.
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