This is an analysis of the poem The Iron Horse that begins with:
No song is mine of Arab steed--
My courser is of nobler blood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbX aXccdcdc effecfcffc adaccdgfXfahha accaececee ffggbXeebbdidi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,14,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11000101 11011101 11011100 110100111 01010100 11010101 01010100 01010110 11011100 11011101 11010111 01010101 10110101 11111100 11111100 01000101 11010100 01010101 11010101 01110101 01010001 11011101 11010101 11010111 11010001 11010001 01010101 101000101 11010100 110100001 010010011 010101010 01010101 11011101 01000101 11010101 01010101 11011101 11000101 11010001 11010101 11010001 11010001 11010111 11010111 01111101 11001101 111111001 01011101 01011101 01001101 01010101 01110101 11110111 01010101 11011101 11011101 11011111 01011101 11011111 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, his, to, thou, bear'st, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you, thou, the are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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