This is an analysis of the poem No More Hollow Gallops that begins with:

No more will my high horse be ridden.
No more hollow gallops taken on trails empty, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb cb dd eXfb egdgXg Xdhdc caafgcbd gXaahbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,4,6,5,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 111010101110 010111001010 11011010011 011110001010010 111001101 0101010111 111010101001 100111100 110001110011 1111001001 1010101111 10101 11101001001 01011 111110110 001011010 1011110101 11011010 101010011 1110100110001 0111010 11101011110 011111 100 1110100111 0111111010 10001 11111111 001 111111111 10111 01 10101 100 101010001 1101101111 011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; no, more, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, would are repeated.

    The author used the same words no, i 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 again is repeated).

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  • summary of No More Hollow Gallops;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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