This is an analysis of the poem Neighing At The Slope that begins with:
Horses' neighing at the slope. Downward or upward.
I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbAXbXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110110 101110111001101111 1101010101 1111011010101 101010110110 101011101011111101 11101000101001010101 10101 1100100101011010 10111011101011101101 101010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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