This is an analysis of the poem Miles Keogh's Horse that begins with:

On the bluff of the Little Big-Horn,
At the close of a woful day, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb ccXc daca adad Xeee faca fcdc cgbXg Xaha agcb hdaca fici jjXj ikdk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001011 10100101 1010110 011101 1100110 1110111 11000010 1011101 0111110 0101001 0111010 11001001 110110101 1100101 101101010 010101 10111110 011001001 1011110 1010101 01011010 1101101 0101010 011101 11010010 110111 101110011 10100101 11 101010 111111 01010111 1010100 11111011011 010111 11010101 1101001 111010010 0010100 010101011 101001001 10100100 101 010111 1100100101 1100100 10101010 000101 11011101 110101 010100101 111101 11111101 110101 11001010 10100101 10101101001 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Miles Keogh's Horse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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