This is an analysis of the poem Riding On Coat-Tails that begins with:
Riding on coat-tails,
Is a movement hard to keep up....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcd efcc Xeae Ffgf FXfgheh ABcggfdXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10111 00101011 010011111 110100010001 101010100111 110011111010 11101 110010010101 010100101001 00110111 010010 11000101111 1010100010 1100100101010 1010001 101010011010 1010100010 1101 111101010 1010001 101001011011 10100101001 101011101 10111 00101011 00010011111 11010100010001 11010101 010110 11101010001 10101010110 01010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word facing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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