This is an analysis of the poem Riding Hard On Their Backs that begins with:
Charading people under steeples,
On their knees praying to keep......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaXCCX DAC DACE ABaXCCX DACXDACE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,4,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101010 1111001 1 111 111111 110011 00010111000 11110111 01110 10011011011 11110111 01110 10011011011 1111011101111 100101010 1111001 1 111 111111 110011 00010111000 11110111 01110 10011011011 11110111 01110 10011011011 1111011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; they is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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