This is an analysis of the poem The Groom's Story that begins with:
Ten mile in twenty minutes! 'E done it, sir. That's true.
The big bay 'orse in the further stall--the one wot's next to you.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabb cXdd aaee eeee ffgg hhii ffee jjaa ggaa jjdd ccjX jjaa eeaa aakk cXdX iibb ccjj aaXd Aabb eeiiXeejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010110111 011100101011101 1111010110101 111010011100111 1110101110111 11110111111111 11111101100101 01011100011101 11101010011101 111111101100001 11010101010111 11010111010101 1111101111111 1111011110111 1111011011111 110111000011001 01101110110101 00101110111101 11111010110111 111110101110110 11000101010111 01010101110111 101010101010101 10110001011100101 0101110010111 01011101011101 11010100101111 101100101011111 11011101110111 01000101010001 11010101111011 10101101011111 11110101111101 1101111100100101 0111110111101 111111101010101 0101111111101 11111100010001 1101110110011 111111100111101 111011110111 11101111101111 11101100101111 00010100010101 11011001010001 10111000111101 11011101011101 101110101110101 1111110110111 111011101011101 1111010111101 101110101011111 11011101011101 111011101010101 10111011110101 101110011111101 11111101111101 11110101010111 1111010101101 11010101110110 1101111111101 11101110110111 11011100100111 1111101010001 1010101110111 101111100110101 1101011110111 11010101111101 111010101110111 10111101111111 01011101111110 111011011110101 1101010110111 01011101111111 110101011010101 111011011100111 1111011111111 11011001111101 11010110110101 11011101010101 1101011110011 11101100001101 10110101010111 001111111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'im, we, to, 'e, master, it, in, no, an', and, somethin' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, 'e, it, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Groom's Story;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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