This is an analysis of the poem A Preference To Stay Strangers that begins with:
It's enough to get up on a high horse.
Tip those wide brim hats....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCBD eAFfXgcB BaXX fdf XfX Gg AABCBDeAFbaXcB BXXGb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,3,3,2,14,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111011 11111 11111101 11111111 100011111 110111010010 100111001110 001001101110 10 010110010101010 11010110101001 1111001111 11010101 1101000110 1111011110 100111011 111110111 100101101101 111111000100000 1101011000110 1101100101101 1000 1 1111 1111 101111111101 0010111011 11111 11111101 11111111 100011111 110111010010 10100111001110 001001101110 10 110 1010110011 011001000 111010101 1101000110 1111011110 1001110111 1111 10111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, to, it, they, of, and, have, their are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of A Preference To Stay Strangers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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