This is an analysis of the poem The Horse Show that begins with:
Constantly near you, I never in my entire
sixty-four years knew you so well as yesterday...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcb defghid jikXghc hegkfkX lfglhXjXklgjlgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111001010 101011111101 1111111010 1101001011100 011111001 100001101011 111110110100 110110111 10110101010 0100101001001 111011011001 01001011100 00111111110 1111101101 11010111111 10101111110 101111111 111111011 11100111110 101001011001 100111011 10011010100 10100110100 10010101101 00110101 1111111 1101100111 1100111010 1011101111 10101111 111001011001 111111011 0101111101 110101111 0101101010 1010110100101 111101101 110101111 010111101 111011011 1111111110 1111100001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; so, you, to, i, oh are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Horse Show;
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