This is an analysis of the poem The Skater that begins with:
My glad feet shod with the glittering steel
I was the god of the wingèd heel. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ff gg ff hh ff ii ee jjXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111001001 11010010001 010011101 011100111 1011101111 1010100111 11011111 1110100111 0011100101 110101101 1100111101 1010100111 0101001001 10100110111 1010011101 1101011011 1011101101 1010111111 0110101101 1100110101 10100111 1100100101 1010110101 1100100101 10011101 0010111111 1111110101 0010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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