This is an analysis of the poem Dark Horse that begins with:
Do you know who you are?
That is a good sign....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde ffgfcXfXXhiifd fhjfcdeXd decbbfe kfjcdka fcgjfkacc Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,14,9,7,7,9,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10001 1101 111111 1110110 111110100 1011110 11011010 1000010100 01010111 110100 010101 110101001 011001010 1110001011 01011 11001 111011110100 11 1111010 1111 111110110 10110101 1101001011 1100101 11101111 01001 10101 11 1101010101 1111 101101010 1111 10111 110010110011 101010001 1111110010 110 101010111 01100111111 1011101111110 11110101101 101010101 110101011 10110100 1010100110 100110010 1100110011010 111 1101 1111010101 01110 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 53
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, what, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Dark Horse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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