Poem Analysis of Upon The Horse And His Rider by John Bunyan for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Horse And His Rider that begins with:

There's one rides very sagely on the road,
Showing that he affects the gravest mode.... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd e eeddffaaddggccDdfXaaddXXggDd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,28,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 11110100101 1011010101 0101100111 0111001101 1111101111 1111011111 1101101111 0101101101 110011001010 11010111010 0100 1111110001 0100010011 11110100010 110011111010 1111010011 111100101 100101110 1101111001 10011001010 11010111010 1110101101 10010111101 0101010111 1101110101 10111001010 11010111010 1011100101 1011010100 0101111101 1111110001 11111101010 01111111110 1111011100 1111010101 1111010101 1101000111 10111001010 11010111010
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
Average number of words per stanza: 104
Amount of lines: 39
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.

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