This is an analysis of the poem A Gallop Of Fire that begins with:
When the north wind moans thro' the blind creek courses
And revels with harsh, hot sand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd eceec Xacca abaabXabaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101110 1100111 1101001110 1101001110 1100101 00101001110 0101111 0101101110 1111011110 10100111 100101101010 10100111 11101011010 0111011010 0100111 10101011100 1100101 1101001110 1111011010 1110101 11111001110 1100111 1101001110 11010010110 1100101 101110101110 1101111 111010011010 11101011110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; horses is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines horses is repeated).
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