This is an analysis of the poem The Dusk Of Horses that begins with:
Right under their noses, the green
Of the field is paling away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb acd ecf gch hea ead die hce ihX ifi XXa eghXche
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011001 00101001 0101010001 110111 1111001 1101010100 10100101 010111001 111110001110 0110101 1011111111 101111110 11011101 11110110 11111 01110110101 1010011110 01111010 101111 111101110011 111011101 11001011 11101001 110011110 1101001 1011101 1110101 01011011 10101000110 110101 001100101 00111101 00111011 0010111 1101100101 0011111 11011101 10111010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; as, they, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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- summary of The Dusk Of Horses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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