This is an analysis of the poem Riding Home that begins with:
Who are these that go to the high peaks and the snow?
Side by side do they ride, their steady eyes aglow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeXX ffgg cchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111110011101 111111110101 1010011101001 100101 11101011010011 11111111110001 1101010001110 1111010 1011011010101 101001101101 11100101111110 101110 110011110111 11001110101 110100110100 111111 101110111001 0111111101 100001110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; they, and, their, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines enow is repeated).
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- summary of Riding Home;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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