This is an analysis of the poem The Ass's Colt that begins with:
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting
upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.' ST. MATTHBW...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab b cd ce ea effgb h ah aX ci cfXfb b ib ib gi gffb j kj kc lX lfb c jc jd kd kf X m dm Xf nfXnfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,2,2,5,1,2,2,2,5,1,2,2,2,4,1,2,2,2,3,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010010111101011110 0111101010111111 010101 1110111 11100110101 01001101 111111 1111101 1111110111 1010101 111111001 11010111 01011111 11011010 1101101 1111101 0011101 1010101 11001011 10101111 1110100101 11100101 1011101 111110111 1111101111 111111010 01001011 1101111 1010110101 11101001 010111101 011101 10101100101 010111 111111111 11111011 11111010 111111111 111111 0110011101 1100111 01011111 1110001 11110110 010101 111011111 1111010 101110111 010101 11110101 111101 11010111 010101 11110111 101101 11011011 11010101 11110101 010101 11010101 0111011 11010101 1110101 10110111 1111111 111111111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; his, he, and, '11 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Ass's Colt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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