This is an analysis of the poem The Horse Of Your Heart that begins with:

When you've ridden a four-year-old half of the day
And, foam to the fetlock, they lead him away, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXbbffffbbgghhbbXfeeffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001111001 11001011101 001001011101 111001101011 101001111101 101111001101 1110010110010 0010011110110 111011001101 01101011001 111001101001 111101101011 101011001111 101101011001 111001111001 101111011111 101001111001 101011001011 101101001001 101101001011 101101101101 111111011001 101001001001 00101001011 11101101011 11101001001 101011101101 101001001001 01111111111 11011001011 11001001001 101101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1633
  • Average number of words per stanza: 321
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, when, as, he, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, he, what are repeated.

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  • summary of The Horse Of Your Heart;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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