This is an analysis of the poem Anastasia & Sandman that begins with:
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc a bd e fgf d ggfhXijk feXeX cjefXeahichgfajhfgXhjkeXlehghhagma gh Xf g dagggnXa d fabkk c egjjajdehhdjkh jehXhljnjmahfmXjde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,1,3,1,8,5,34,2,2,1,8,1,5,1,14,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101101 0101010110001 01001010010 101001 10111010001 1101010 11010111 01101001 101100101111 1010110001 1010100011110 1000010100100 11101000101111 0111101010 0110111011 1001011001 0101110101 1111000100011 10101000111001010 001001001101010 01011010101 1011101010110 010011011010 1000101101000 01001001001010 11111010010 11100110011 1010010011101 1010010101 110101 10110110011 01101111010 10110111 1001010110 110101010011 111111010101 1010101101001 01010101101 10001001111 1010001110101 010010110111 111111010 0100111011110 01011 101011011 01010101010 0011101010 1001110110 110101100110 00100101101 101110010101 1000101110010 010101101001 110001001011 001110101 0111101001 101000100101 101101101011 0101011001 111010 1010110100010 110100010101001 1011101 10000101101010 11010010110110 011000100100 01101111010100 0100110100010010 10110001011110 0010010011101 011001110001 10101010 0101010110010 101000101011 1101010101110 111010110 1000100110 01000100 10100110010 0011000101110 101111010001001 11010000001001 1010101010001 0010101101 001100100010010 001101101 011110110 10101101001 00110 101010111101 011010100110100 011011111101001 1100100101001 0101000010 0111010111 1010010 11111011101 010 11011011001011 101001001110001 01101 11100101111 1010000010 1010101010001 0011110000101 0101000111011 0111110110010 101101110101 11011101010 100101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; you, real, window, of, in, horse, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines something, horse are repeated).
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