This is an analysis of the poem Going To The Horse Flats that begins with:
Amazingly active a toothless old man
Hobbled beside me up the canyon, going to Horse Flats, he said,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdbbbaXefghbibjdXhbXkXXbldbXdmabdmXXfXkg heafbd mdmekbdcgkjX alakjciXaXakkmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,6,12,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001011 1001110101001111 0101101011111011 1010111110 0111001101101110 1110101 01011110100100010 111010110 100101100111011 110 11011001110 110111111101 1111111101011010 11110001 1110111101111 10101011010 1011110101111 0110110010100 01111011010001 101011111101 1011010111101 011110011010110 1110101010101010 1000101010111 100111001110111 11101111 11010100110111 11111101010001 1100 10110011110101 111010111 10100110101111010 11011100111101 110010101010 00101010001010011 110101001 101011010110101010 10100111010111 01011010111 0100101001011101 1100101 0010010110011011 0010100 1101 10001111111010 101001001 010111001011011 11010110 11011110101010 1 110101101100 001111000100101 10100111110 01110111111010 01001100111 011000101111100 011010001101010 0100 010010101011001010101 111100 0101101111010 1111 1010101110011101 110100111001 100101010101010 10001000111001101 1101011111 1110111001011110 0111101010 0111 101010011111 01001001011 1010011 110110110110111 11011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 742
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; he, to, them, and, it, ', said, his, nor, world are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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