This is an analysis of the poem The Circus-Day Parade that begins with:
Oh, the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played!
And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes, and neighed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBB ccaa ddee aabb ffee ccaa AXBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101011010111 110101011101110 10101010010101 11010101010001 10111010010101 11000101111101 11010111101001 10110100010101 10101110110111 11011101011111 10101111010101 111111101010111 10101010010011 1010001011100101 10101010010011 01011101000111 101010101101001 101000101010011 00101010011101 01011100110101 1101011011101 001110101011101 10101010010111 00110110010001 10101011010111 110101011101110 10101010010101 11010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Circus-Day Parade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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