This is an analysis of the poem Sam's Racehorse that begins with:
When Sam Small retired from the Army
He'd a pension of ninepence a day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cded Xcfc agXX hfff ifhf Xiei fjXj hfXf kkck ikik hiai hljl hgjg hmfm dXcf hjXj gngn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010 1010010001 110111110 11001011 110110010 11001011 111010011 01111111 111010011 101001011 1010011010 11101011 111010110 11101111 1111110110 110111111 1111010110 01101001 1111011010 11011001 1010010111 11011011 11101010 11011011 010110110 11111001 110011010 11111111 110111010 11001001 111110110 01011111 1011010110 111011001 1111011110 11111101 1010010010 111011001 1010110110 111001101 010111010 11101001 010111110 11010111 0011111010 11111001 110111110 11001011 110111010 01101101 010011010 101011011 110111010 111101001 1011011010 101101111 010111010 101111001 110111010 11101011 010111111 1110110110 111110010 11101001 110110010 11011101 1110011011 101011101 010010010 111010011 11100111010 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, her, he are repeated.
The author used the same words he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sam's Racehorse;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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