This is an analysis of the poem Strathcona's Horse that begins with:
O I was thine, and thou wert mine, and
ours the boundless plain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXdacccdefegHfHciaicbdbaeiegHfH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 10101 101001110 1101101 1010110101 110101 1001010101000 1 101010010101 1101 01001101111 001001 1000101111010 101 1110110010 100101 11011101110 01010 111101111 1001010 11110101 1010111 0111000111 1101 0101110101 0101001 11001011111 100101 1011101011 0101101 1011111001 0011101 11011101110 01010 111110011 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1238
- Average number of words per stanza: 227
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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