Old Horses by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Old Horses that begins with:

Old horses off course,
Prepared to enforce......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AaabcXde adfdAa aabfeggdg XfX hhCgfdfCaeeeeCg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,9,3,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 01001 1010 11010010 01001 00111 1101 100110101 110010 101001 10110 00101111 11011 0100101 1111011 010011010 101101010 1111000110010 00010111010100 011100100110 10101110111 01011100110010 1111110010 10111011110 110111 101011111 11010111011 101110101 11 1101101001 110001010 1101100111 00100111101 11 10101111110 010011101 1110101 101101101 1111100111 11 10100101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, on, we, back, go are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word go is repeated.

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  • summary of Old Horses;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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