This is an analysis of the poem Blue Arab that begins with:

The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill
like a glancing breaker, like a storm rearing in the sky,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101010101 10101010110001 00111110011 10010010010101 011101010111 100100111010 0101101010010 1010101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Blue Arab;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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