This is an analysis of the poem How We Drove The Trotter that begins with:
Oh, he was a handsome trotter, and he couldn't be completer,
He had such a splendid action and he trotted to this metre,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaaa aabbccXa deXedeeefXfedd aagghhaa aXagijjhXhiggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,14,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101011100100 111010101110001 1011101010011010 1100101010100010 1110101010101010 1110101011110010 110010011010 111110110010 110010010010 110010010010 111011111010 111010010110 010011010010 110110110110 111 101 111 101 111 001 011001 111 111 101 111 111 011 101011 1110001011101010 1111101011101010 1110101011101010 1010101111101010 1010101010111010 1010101011111010 11111010101001010 1110101010101010 1010 1010 10101010 1 1 1 10101 1010 1100 10101010 1 1 1 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; he, such, and, broke are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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