This is an analysis of Song Of The Gray Stallion by Henry Herbert Knibbs.

My dam was a mustang white and proud,
My sire was as black as a thunder cloud;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddeeceeffghhbbgaaffbbbiib
  • Stanza lengths: 30,
  • Metre: 111011111 11011110101 11101010111 1011110111 1010101 10011111 001111101 1011100101 110111101 1110111 11110101 111111111 111100101 1111110111 1011101 1101011010 1100111010 111111111 1011110111 1010111 10110111 101111101 101011101 111111111 011101 01011111 111111011 111110101 111110111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, to, learned, my

Anaphora

my, i, and, the