This is an analysis of the poem The Runaway that begins with:
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall,
We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose colt?'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbdXeddXeXfgcgcfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101001 111010100111 010101111101 01011011101 11011111101 11010110111 111111111111 1011010100101 110101001001 10010100001 0010101111001 1101001011110 01010111101 100101101100 111101001001 1101010101 1101100111 11001100111 1000111111 11010110111 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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