This is an analysis of the poem Little Abigail And The Beautiful Pony that begins with:

There was a girl named Abigail
Who was taking a drive...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcbdceabXCfCbCXdXCddbbCXbcggbccfedgbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 111001 1010 0010 111010011 11110 1100101 11 111 11101 111110 111 10101 1111 11011 1111110 10101 1111110 1111011001 1111111 11011 11101001 111 11110 111110 10101 0101110 1110110 1101010111 011111011 10101111 1110110110010 1101111 111111101 1111 1111 101110 1101 1010010 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1028
  • Average number of words per stanza: 210
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words may, i, and are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Little Abigail And The Beautiful Pony;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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