This is an analysis of the poem The Last Lap that begins with:
How do we know, by the bank-high river,
Where the mired and sulky oxen wait,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeX fgfgahahfdfX didiceceabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101110 101110101 10111111110 111110101 1011001010 101100101 1111101010 1011100111 100101110 011101011 1001001010 111101111 1111101111 111001001 10111010101 1111001001 1011001110 1110100101 001101010 101001101 0101001111 010110101 0111011011 01110110110 1111101110 1011111101 10111101110 1111111001 10110010100 101100101 1111111010 111111101 101011110 1101011001 1011101110 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, yet are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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