This is an analysis of the poem A Gallop From The Train that begins with:
Though I can't afford a hunter -more's the pity,
I love a rousing gallop like the rest!-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede fbfb gdgd hfhf bcbc ibib ijij kbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010010 1101010101 1001011100010 11111010001 111110101010 00101010101 101011101110 10101011001 101001101010 10111010101 101010101011 11101010101 111011111010 10100100101 101011101010 10111011001 101110100010 11101010101 01011111010 11100011101 111110100010 1110101111 01010101110 10111010101 111100101010 111010101001 001111111010 00111110111 111110101010 10101010001 111111101010 11101011001 1111101010101110 11100101101 1110101110101010 10101010101 10101010001011010 1111110011 0111101000100010 1110101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, we, his, he, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Gallop From The Train;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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