This is an analysis of the poem Dying In Harness that begins with:
ONLY a fallen horse, stretched out there on the road.
Stretched in the broken shafts, and crushed by the heavy load;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaadd eeaa ffgg ffhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111101 1001011110101 100101101001001 1001010100101 1101010111011 1011011010111 1101011100101 1001111000001 10010101100001 0010110101101001 1011010100111 1101011100111 1001010100101 01010010100111 1010011101101 10010101111101 11101010110101 101011010001001001 11010100101000 11110100101001 01101010110101 110111111101111 1101010010101001 0101101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
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 word see is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase then connects the lines.
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