This is an analysis of the poem The Riding Of The Rebel that begins with:
He was the Red Creek overseer, a trusted man and true,
Whose shoulder never left the wheel when there was work to do;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddeeffgg hhdXffcX cciiggbb Hhffaagg bbeeccgg ffffggcX HXbbddcc aaggccbb iXhXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111010010111 11010101111101 11011101110111 01011101111111 11110101110101 11110101010101 11011100011111 11010101111111 110100101111101 01010101110111 11010101110101 11110101110101 01010100110101 01111111011111 11010111110111 11011101110101 11001101110111 01111100110111 111010101011101 101111000010101 111111001011101 11111101110001 01011101110111 1101001011111010 11110101110001 11010101010001 010111011111010 010100010100010 11110101011111 11011101011111 101011101010101 001110101011101 101010100010001 11011101111111 011100101110101 01011001110101 11010100010011 01010101110111 11010101010111 01011101110111 10010110010101 01010101010101 111010101110111 101010111010111 1101110001001 011101011110111 00111101010010101 01011010100111001 01011010110110111 10111101010111001 10101001011111101 11110011111100111 11010101010011 11011001110101 11110101110111 01110101010001 101010100010001 111011101110111 11000101011111 11100001110101 1101001111110101 0101001111100111 1011111111100111 11010111111110101 11001001011100111 0100101011110111 110010110110100111 10111101011000111 11100100101101001001 101001001010100101 01010011101010001 11100101100111110101 101010101110111010 1101001111110101 110101010101101 101110101110100 111111101111101 101101000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, her, he, you, to, ', with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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