This is an analysis of the poem White Horses that begins with:
Where run your colts at pasture?
Where hide your mares to breed?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcddd efXfgbhbciaidXdb adXdbbXb dbhbXjdj dkdkdddd gldlbede XgXgbdad XhbhXfhf Xdbcbdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 111101 1101011 110101 1101110 110101 1101011 110001 1101011 010111 1100110 010101 11110010 110101 0101111 1010111 0111110 110101 1101110 111001 1101010 010110 1101110 011101 1101010 1100111 1101010 110111 0101010 110101 0101010 010001 1111110 1100111 101110101 010111 1101110 111111 1101110 010101 1101110 111101 1101111 110111 1101010 110101 1101110 010011 1111110 110111 1101110 011101 1101110 110111 1101110 010101 1101110 110111 1111110 011101 1101011 111101 0101110 1010111 0111000 010101 1111010 110101 1100110 110101 110110 011101 1111010 110101 1101011 111101 0111010 011101 1101110 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, their, trust, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, the, that, we, by, and, with, trust, to are repeated.
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