This is an analysis of the poem Roan Stallion that begins with:

The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing
iron strike stone down the steep road...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefcbghcgbbiebbacXcjiXkXaadhlmlinobiXXmajmbcaX ehpXiqedbrkoqcligdkXlbkclbhoemlhkaXkkibmapmmokrcmjhkfbXqjsdhbbbmrbampimlhXbjcbaidbjcsbdahjeqajjbjmddmaltcpjjcjjjlamqhchlemcoXdhbddpdb lammXcdkbjobklachbjmhbkrqXjejmjbbjltaphdhbmaamjXhdrhkhma cXlaamqjcrcbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,133,56,259,4,111,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4928
  • Average number of words per stanza: 912
  • Amount of lines: 613
  • 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, from, to, her, he, i, she, of, under, for, light, baby, his, god, ', had, morrow, these, him, if, o, more, whom, one, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, under, the, but, not, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', money are repeated).

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