This is an analysis of the poem In Harness that begins with:
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The foreman's head slowly circling… White rims under yellow disks of eyes…. Gold hairs starting out of a blond scowl… Hovering… disappearing…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b X X X X X acdcdXXXebXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0100110100111010101111010011100101001001001 100100110010101110001110101101101110111101010110010110100111011101110111011110110101101011101010101010110100011 10100110001010110101001010110010100101100101010111011110100101010100100101011101001011100101 0101011101010011101101010011011010111111010001100011111101110 10010011001001001001010010111011 1 01 101101 0101 110100101 01101 10010101 01100011010000 10100 11100110101 1111101 00100101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 92 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, like, light, eyes, another, her are repeated.
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- summary of In Harness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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